linux-kernel - Re: [patch V3 01/10] rslib: Add GFP aware init function

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Date:   Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:59:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
        Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [patch V3 01/10] rslib: Add GFP aware init function

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:23:46 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> >> +static inline struct rs_control *init_rs(int symsize, int gfpoly, int fcr,
> >> +                                      int prim, int nroots)
> >> +{
> >> +     return init_rs_gfp(symsize, gfpoly, fcr, prim, nroots, GFP_KERNEL);
> >> +}
> >> +
> >
> > The version of this patch that Kees has committed to his kspp tree in linux-next has
> >
> > #include <linux/slab.h>
> >
> > why not just
> >
> > #include <linux/types.h>        /* for gpf_t */
> > #include <linux/gpf.h>          /* for GFP_KERNEL */
> >
> > ?

Sure

> We could certainly switch to that. (Why doesn't gfp.h include types.h?)

Excellent question.

Thanks,

	tglx