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Message-ID: <ZTuUQZSrjhXnEaT/@casper.infradead.org> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:43:13 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@...driver.com>, Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] seq_buf: Introduce DECLARE_SEQ_BUF and seq_buf_cstr() On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:54:26AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > > do_soemthing(seq_buf_cstr(s)); > > > > Do we really need to call it _cstr? Why not just have seq_buf_str() ? > > > > I mean, this is C, do we need to state that in the name too? > > I'm fine either way. I did that just to make the distinction between our > length-managed string of characters interface (seq_buf), and the > %NUL-terminated string of characters (traditionally called "C String" in > other languages). And it was still shorter than "seq_buf_terminate(s); > s->buffer" ;) 'cstr' might be short for 'counted string' ...
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