linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace to

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

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:50:26 -0400
From:   Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>, rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...roid.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace to _check

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 4:45 PM Joel Fernandes (Google)
<joel@...lfernandes.org> wrote:
>
> The rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() API name is confusing.
> It is equivalent to rcu_dereference_raw() except that it also does
> sparse pointer checking.
>
> There are only a few users of rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(). This
> patches renames all of them to be rcu_dereference_raw_check with the
> "check" indicating sparse checking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>

There also these _notrace things but I am Ok with leaving them alone for now:
hash_for_each_possible_rcu_notrace
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace

- Joel