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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"open list:SYNOPSYS ARC ARCHITECTURE" 
	<linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] asm-generic/uaccess: don't define inline functions if noinline lib/* in use
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:57:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3W0eLK+qypnPwq=PdcF7+ey8OZEhmOoA6Bg7hMGm5hqQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200114200846.29434-2-vgupta@synopsys.com>

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 9:08 PM Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> wrote:
>
> There are 2 generic varaints of strncpy_from_user() / strnlen_user()
>  (1). inline version in asm-generic/uaccess.h
>  (2). optimized word-at-a-time version in lib/*
>
> This patch disables #1 if #2 selected. This allows arches to continue
> reusing asm-generic/uaccess.h for rest of code
>
> This came up when switching ARC to generic word-at-a-time interface
>
> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>

This looks like a useful change, but I think we can do even better: It
seems that
there are no  callers of __strnlen_user or __strncpy_from_user  in the
kernel today, so these should not be defined either when the Kconfig symbols
are set. Also, I would suggest moving the 'extern' declaration for the two
functions into the #else branch of the conditional so it does not need to be
duplicated.

      Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-14 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-14 20:08 [RFC 0/4] Switching ARC to optimized generic strncpy_from_user Vineet Gupta
2020-01-14 20:08 ` [RFC 1/4] asm-generic/uaccess: don't define inline functions if noinline lib/* in use Vineet Gupta
2020-01-14 20:57   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2020-01-15 23:01     ` Vineet Gupta
2020-01-16 11:43       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-14 21:32   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-15  9:08     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-15 14:12       ` Al Viro
2020-01-15 14:21         ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-14 20:08 ` [RFC 2/4] lib/strncpy_from_user: Remove redundant user space pointer range check Vineet Gupta
2020-01-14 21:22   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-14 21:52     ` Vineet Gupta
2020-01-14 23:46     ` Al Viro
2020-01-15 14:42   ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-01-15 23:00     ` Vineet Gupta
2020-01-14 20:08 ` [RFC 3/4] ARC: uaccess: remove noinline variants of __strncpy_from_user() and friends Vineet Gupta
2020-01-14 20:08 ` [RFC 4/4] ARC: uaccess: use optimized generic __strnlen_user/__strncpy_from_user Vineet Gupta
2020-01-14 20:42   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-14 21:36     ` Vineet Gupta
2020-01-14 21:49       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-14 22:14         ` Vineet Gupta

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