| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 01:42:37 +0000
From: KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC: "gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
"virtualization@...ts.osdl.org" <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
"Hank Janssen" <hjanssen@...rosoft.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/6] Staging: hv: Cleanup hyperv_device variable names
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@...ah.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 9:44 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh@...e.de; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> devel@...uxdriverproject.org; virtualization@...ts.osdl.org; Haiyang Zhang; Hank
> Janssen
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Staging: hv: Cleanup hyperv_device variable names
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 06:06:32PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Cleanup the names of variables that refer to the
> > hyperv_device abstraction.
>
> Clean them up to be what? Shorter? Nice? Full of rounded edges so
> that when we bump into them in the dark they don't poke us and cause us
> to shreak in pain?
>
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
>
> Sweet, you cloned yourself, I thought only Alan Cox had achieved that
> goal...
>
> > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@...rosoft.com>
> >
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c | 12 ++--
> > drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c | 4 +-
> > drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c | 36 ++++----
> > drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c | 44 +++++-----
> > drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 164 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> --
> > 5 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c
> > index 58ab0e8..305a665 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/blkvsc_drv.c
> > @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct blkvsc_request {
> > /* Per device structure */
> > struct block_device_context {
> > /* point back to our device context */
> > - struct hyperv_device *device_ctx;
> > + struct hyperv_device *device_obj;
>
> Hey, I was right, it does have more rounded edges, nicely done.
>
>
> > -static int netvsc_device_add(struct hyperv_device *device,
> > - void *additional_info);
> > +static int
> > +netvsc_device_add(struct hyperv_device *device, void *additional_info);
>
> Again with the function return value hiding. Please don't.
>
> > --- a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
> > @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct host_device_context {
> > /* must be 1st field
> > * FIXME this is a bug */
> > /* point back to our device context */
> > - struct hyperv_device *device_ctx;
> > + struct hyperv_device *device_obj;
>
> I really don't understand this change at all. "obj" is just as vapid
> and clueless as "ctx" is, and it seems very gratuitous to change this.
> And I should know, I have made a lot of gratuitous renames in my time in
> the kernel...
Greg, there are not that many options here. As I recall there was universal
objection to the use of *context/*ctx to refer to device or driver objects.
The name I chose is fairly descriptive of what it represents. If there is consensus
on a better name, I will use it.
>
> > static int vmbus_uevent(struct device *device, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
> > {
> > - struct hyperv_device *device_ctx = device_to_hyperv_device(device);
> > + struct hyperv_device *device_obj = device_to_hyperv_device(device);
> > int ret;
> >
> > DPRINT_INFO(VMBUS_DRV, "generating uevent -
> VMBUS_DEVICE_CLASS_GUID={"
> > "%02x%02x%02x%02x-%02x%02x-%02x%02x-"
> > "%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x}",
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[3], device_ctx->class_id.data[2],
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[1], device_ctx->class_id.data[0],
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[5], device_ctx->class_id.data[4],
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[7], device_ctx->class_id.data[6],
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[8], device_ctx->class_id.data[9],
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[10],
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[11],
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[12],
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[13],
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[14],
> > - device_ctx->class_id.data[15]);
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[3], device_obj->class_id.data[2],
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[1], device_obj->class_id.data[0],
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[5], device_obj->class_id.data[4],
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[7], device_obj->class_id.data[6],
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[8], device_obj->class_id.data[9],
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[10],
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[11],
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[12],
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[13],
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[14],
> > + device_obj->class_id.data[15]);
>
> After seeing this stuff so many times I'm waiting for a helper function
> to be added for it in this subsystem. I'm sure you really don't want to
> edit GUID printk-like functions ever again, right?
I will have a separate patch for this.
>
> > static void vmbus_device_release(struct device *device)
> > {
> > - struct hyperv_device *device_ctx = device_to_hyperv_device(device);
> > + struct hyperv_device *device_obj = device_to_hyperv_device(device);
> >
> > - kfree(device_ctx);
> > + kfree(device_obj);
> >
> > - /* !!DO NOT REFERENCE device_ctx anymore at this point!! */
> > + /* !!DO NOT REFERENCE device_obj anymore at this point!! */
> > }
>
> I think by virtue of the kfree() right above this comment, it should be
> deleted. Especially as it is at the end of the function, making it
> pretty much impossible to make any sense here...
For what it is worth; this is existing code. In the spirit of one thing per patch;
there will be a patch for this.
>
> Come on, global search-and-replace needs to be done in a sane manner,
> other wise you can just send me a vi macro to run on the code, it would
> be the same thing in the end (hint, don't do that, only one person has
> ever gotten away with doing that in the history of the kernel, in an act
> never to be ever repeated again.)
Greg, apart from your objection to the name I picked to refer to variable
referring to struct hyperv_device; what else is the problem here.
Regards,
K. Y
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists