linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] kprobes: Remove MODULES dependency

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Message-ID: <202007100849.9FA1E414A@keescook>
Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:51:56 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
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        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
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        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] kprobes: Remove MODULES dependency

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 07:32:57PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 02:45:19 +0300
> Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> >  	/* Lock modules while optimizing kprobes */
> >  	mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
> > +#endif
> 
> Hmm, can you reduce these "#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE"s ?
> 
> e.g. 
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> static void lock_modules(void)
> {
> 	mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
> }
> ...
> #else
> #define lock_modules() do { } while (0)
> ...
> #endif

I prefer using "static inline" for no-op functions just because they
will maintain argument type validation by the compiler regardless of the
CONFIG state (though it doesn't really matter here since it's void).

#else
static inline lock_modules(void) { }
#endif

-- 
Kees Cook