From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] kprobes: Remove MODULES dependency
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:51:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202007100849.9FA1E414A@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200710193257.4eeb19e9cd042d99cbca7f9a@kernel.org>
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 07:32:57PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 02:45:19 +0300
> Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> > /* Lock modules while optimizing kprobes */
> > mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
> > +#endif
>
> Hmm, can you reduce these "#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE"s ?
>
> e.g.
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> static void lock_modules(void)
> {
> mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
> }
> ...
> #else
> #define lock_modules() do { } while (0)
> ...
> #endif
I prefer using "static inline" for no-op functions just because they
will maintain argument type validation by the compiler regardless of the
CONFIG state (though it doesn't really matter here since it's void).
#else
static inline lock_modules(void) { }
#endif
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-10 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-09 23:45 [PATCH RFC] kprobes: Remove MODULES dependency Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-10 9:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-10 10:36 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-10 10:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-13 5:05 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-13 10:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-14 11:52 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-07-10 10:32 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-07-10 11:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-10 13:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-13 5:52 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-10 13:18 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-07-10 13:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-13 5:55 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-13 5:49 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-14 11:45 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-07-10 15:51 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-07-13 5:56 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-13 5:39 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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