linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bpf: Make function btf_name_offset

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Date:   Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:16:29 +0000
From:   Martin Lau <kafai@...com>
To:     Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
CC:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: Make function btf_name_offset_valid static

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:29:40PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Initially in commit 69b693f0aefa ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format
> (BTF)") the function 'btf_name_offset_valid' was introduced as static
> function it was later on changed to a non-static one, and then finally
> in commit c454a46b5efd ("bpf: Add bpf_line_info support") the function
> prototype was removed.
Instead of c454a46b5efd, it was removed from btf.h in
commit 23127b33ec80 ("bpf: Create a new btf_name_by_offset() for non type name use case")

> 
> Revert back to original implementation and make the function static.
> Remove warning triggered with W=1:
> 
>   kernel/bpf/btf.c:470:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'btf_name_offset_valid' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
Fixes: 23127b33ec80 ("bpf: Create a new btf_name_by_offset() for non type name use case")

Thanks for the fix!

Other than the above,

Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>