linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3a] ptrace: add _ptrace_may

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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2009 10:19:24 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3a] ptrace: add _ptrace_may_access()


* Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:32:24PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > Something like the patch below allows the reuse of the locked 
> > > version of __ptrace_may_access and pushes the int->bool conversion 
> > > into an inline.
> > 
> > I think it would be cleaner and safe/simple enough to invert the public
> > ptrace_may_access() to just return the int and invert the ! on all the
> > callers (all one in fs/proc/task_mmu.c and all four in fs/proc/base.c).
> 
> Yeah.  And at the same time we might move it out of ptrace.c and 
> give it a more descriptive name given that most users aren't 
> related to ptrace in any way.  may_inspect_task maybe? [...]

That name (due to the 'may') signals/suggests a bool property as 
well, so if it has a retval==0 convention it's either incorrectly 
named, or the return convention need to stay a bool.

> [...]  I'm good at naming things..

not in this case ;-)

	Ingo
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