Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] fs: introduce helper d_path_unsafe()

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Jun 23 2021 - 05:07:25 EST


On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:02:45AM +0000, Justin He wrote:
> > From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 10:37 PM
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10:06:31PM +0800, Jia He wrote:

...

> > > * prepend_name - prepend a pathname in front of current buffer pointer
> > > - * @buffer: buffer pointer
> > > - * @buflen: allocated length of the buffer
> > > + * @p: prepend buffer which contains buffer pointer and allocated length
> >
> > > * @name: name string and length qstr structure
> >
> > Indentation issue btw, can be fixed in the same patch.
>
> Okay
> >
> > > *
> > > * With RCU path tracing, it may race with d_move(). Use READ_ONCE() to
> >
> > Shouldn't this be a separate change with corresponding Fixes tag?
>
> Sorry, I don't quite understand here.
> What do you want to fix?

Kernel doc. The Fixes tag should correspond to the changes that missed the
update of kernel doc.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko