From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55876C433DF for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 21:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21BD42053B for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 21:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="snPX6e/0" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729318AbgHOVzI (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Aug 2020 17:55:08 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45600 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729075AbgHOVwZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Aug 2020 17:52:25 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF150C004582; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:23:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=XNnhqa1EUtqytFCfJSuJLhsT+WcSRC9k4ESXyMuhNTU=; b=snPX6e/0YVSp1IEqXQqMvaGXZs 690Ej5IRXxO8q+ekbLWln56lZObyenBEZwB9gVI+Rgh/OVCz/ZK6rZ4jpBAcJvUQINLfYnI32NB5p Dl7iwSxgXobIfatecLrHb6exWfppgGaF3SGpXbQLu4fPe87kg12MUrlydN52Wf8nDfpUIrGdaWcm9 nEkcMn9QTO9mtJWj80Edzz618rhyeqdm1gr9hKGSjB/YVI0REbzkZAS8LG+QCittA7Tuz1kyguuP9 vu2LrGHht4+Mxd4hRkmteFllaPNl3oIQx7ZZSsMHMXUrA9YkY1I9D9vEraTU4PXR5N6qZ9FLEO40B Y0NFTu5w==; Received: from willy by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1k70pY-0004UB-36; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 18:23:00 +0000 Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 19:23:00 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Markus Elfring Cc: Josef Bacik , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Coccinelle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com, Al Viro , Christoph Hellwig , Denis Efremov Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tree-wide: rename vmemdup_user to kvmemdup_user Message-ID: <20200815182300.GZ17456@casper.infradead.org> References: <2e717622-22ba-9947-c8df-520bdbb2e16f@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2e717622-22ba-9947-c8df-520bdbb2e16f@web.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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