Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Aug 2022 19:40:39 +0300 | From | Jarkko Sakkinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: Improve comments for sgx_encl_lookup/alloc_backing() |
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 06:47:01AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 7/28/22 00:58, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 11:21:19AM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > >> Modify the comments for sgx_encl_lookup_backing() and for > >> sgx_encl_alloc_backing() to indicate that they take a reference > >> which must be dropped with a call to sgx_encl_put_backing(). > >> Make sgx_encl_lookup_backing() static for now, and change the > >> name of sgx_encl_get_backing() to __sgx_encl_get_backing() to > >> make it more clear that sgx_encl_get_backing() is an internal > >> function. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com> > > The rename is unnecessary. > > Well, it was done to address some reviewer confusion: > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/YtUs3MKLzFg+rqEV@zn.tnic/ > > I wouldn't call it unnecessary. Heck, I'd argue that the one of the > main reasons that this code leaked memory in the first place was the > naming and lack of comments.
Maybe the rename should be its own patch with this tag in the commit:
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YtUs3MKLzFg+rqEV@zn.tnic/
BR, Jarkko
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