netdev - RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] fs: Export __receive

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Date:   Tue, 16 Aug 2022 08:03:14 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Kirill Tkhai' <tkhai@...ru>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "edumazet@...gle.com" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "viro@...iv.linux.org.uk" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] fs: Export __receive_fd()

From: Kirill Tkhai
> Sent: 15 August 2022 22:15
> 
> This is needed to make receive_fd_user() available in modules, and it will be used in next patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...ru>
> ---
> v2: New
>  fs/file.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
> index 3bcc1ecc314a..e45d45f1dd45 100644
> --- a/fs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/file.c
> @@ -1181,6 +1181,7 @@ int __receive_fd(struct file *file, int __user *ufd, unsigned int o_flags)
>  	__receive_sock(file);
>  	return new_fd;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__receive_fd);

It doesn't seem right (to me) to be exporting a function
with a __ prefix.

	David

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