linux-kernel - ntfs: extern vs inline?

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Date:   Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:55:49 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Anton Altaparmakov <anton@...era.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: ntfs: extern vs inline?

Hello Anton.

I was looking around for bare inline uses and found this in
fs/ntfs/inode.[ch]:

$ git grep -w ntfs_new_extent_inode
fs/ntfs/inode.c:inline ntfs_inode *ntfs_new_extent_inode(struct super_block *sb,
fs/ntfs/inode.h:extern ntfs_inode *ntfs_new_extent_inode(struct super_block *sb,
fs/ntfs/mft.c:  ni = ntfs_new_extent_inode(base_ni->vol->sb, mft_no);

It seems odd for the function declaration to be extern but the definition
to be inline.

mft.c doesn't include inode.c, so the compiler shouldn't be able to inline it.

Likely the inline use in inode.c should be removed.
---
 fs/ntfs/inode.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)fs/

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
index f7e4cbc26eaf..33386e8818de 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
@@ -399,8 +399,7 @@ void __ntfs_init_inode(struct super_block *sb, ntfs_inode *ni)
  */
 static struct lock_class_key extent_inode_mrec_lock_key;

-inline ntfs_inode *ntfs_new_extent_inode(struct super_block *sb,
-		unsigned long mft_no)
+ntfs_inode *ntfs_new_extent_inode(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long mft_no)
 {
 	ntfs_inode *ni = ntfs_alloc_extent_inode();