Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:57:26 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] blktrace: fix debugfs use after free |
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:21:52PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 05:04:06AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:02:30PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > > > Err, that function is static and has two callers. > > > > > > Yes but that is to make it easier to look for who is creating the > > > debugfs_dir for either the request_queue or partition. I'll export > > > blk_debugfs_root and we'll open code all this. > > > > No, please not. exported variables are usually a bad idea. Just > > skip the somewhat pointless trivial static function. > > Alrighty. It has me thinking we might want to only export those symbols > to a specific namespace. Thoughts, preferences? > > BLOCK_GENHD_PRIVATE ?
That's a nice add-on issue after this is fixed. As Christoph and I pointed out, you have _less_ code in the file if you remove the static wrapper function. Do that now and then worry about symbol namespaces please.
thanks,
greg k-h
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