linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/10] mm, util: Use dup

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Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:15:23 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] mm, util: Use dup_user to duplicate user memory

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@...il.com> wrote:
> Previously the strndup_user allocation was being done through memdup_user,
> and the caller was wrongly traced as being strndup_user
> (the correct trace must report the caller of strndup_user).
>
> This is a common problem: in order to get accurate callsite tracing,
> a utils function can't allocate through another utils function,
> but instead do the allocation himself (or inlined).
>
> Here we fix this by creating an always inlined dup_user() function to
> performed the real allocation and to be used by memdup_user and strndup_user.
>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@...il.com>
> ---
>  mm/util.c |   11 ++++++++---
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
> index dc3036c..48d3ff8b 100644
> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
>
>  /**
> - * memdup_user - duplicate memory region from user space
> + * dup_user - duplicate memory region from user space
>   *
>   * @src: source address in user space
>   * @len: number of bytes to copy
>   *
>   * Returns an ERR_PTR() on failure.
>   */
> -void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len)
> +static __always_inline void *dup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len)
>  {
>         void *p;
>
> @@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len)
>
>         return p;
>  }
> +
> +void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len)
> +{
> +       return dup_user(src, len);
> +}
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(memdup_user);
>
>  static __always_inline void *__do_krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size,
> @@ -214,7 +219,7 @@ char *strndup_user(const char __user *s, long n)
>         if (length > n)
>                 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>
> -       p = memdup_user(s, length);
> +       p = dup_user(s, length);
>
>         if (IS_ERR(p))
>                 return p;

Looks good to me. Andrew, do you want to pick this up?
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