From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tree-wide: rename vmemdup_user to kvmemdup_user
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 19:23:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200815182300.GZ17456@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e717622-22ba-9947-c8df-520bdbb2e16f@web.de>
On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 03:10:12PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > This helper uses kvmalloc, not vmalloc, so rename it to kvmemdup_user to
> > make it clear we're using kvmalloc() and will need to use kvfree().
>
> Can the renaming of this function name trigger software updates
> for any more source files?
Why don't you find out, and if there are, submit your own patch?
> Example:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci?id=c9c9735c46f589b9877b7fc00c89ef1b61a31e18#n18
>
> Regards,
> Markus
next parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-15 21:55 UTC|newest]
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2020-08-15 18:23 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-08-13 16:13 [PATCH 1/2][v3] proc: use vmalloc for our kernel buffer Josef Bacik
2020-08-13 16:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] tree-wide: rename vmemdup_user to kvmemdup_user Josef Bacik
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