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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,  linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,  linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] fs/readdir: Fix filldir() and filldir64() use of user_access_begin()
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:24:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgNQ-rWoLg0OCJYYYbKBnRAUK4NPU-OD+vv-6fWnd=8kA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12a4be679e43de1eca6e5e2173163f27e2f25236.1579715466.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 09:52 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
wrote:

>
> -       struct linux_dirent __user * dirent;
> +       struct linux_dirent __user * dirent, *dirent0;


Patch looks better, but those names are horrid.

Please just use "prev" for the previous dirent, and leave the current one
as "dirent".

I think that's going to be a lot more legible. But no numbering.

      Linus

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-22 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-22 17:52 Christophe Leroy
2020-01-22 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] powerpc/32s: Fix bad_kuap_fault() Christophe Leroy
2020-01-22 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] powerpc/kuap: Fix set direction in allow/prevent_user_access() Christophe Leroy
2020-01-22 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] powerpc/32s: Drop NULL addr verification Christophe Leroy
2020-01-22 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] powerpc/32s: prepare prevent_user_access() for user_access_end() Christophe Leroy
2020-01-23 10:59   ` Michael Ellerman
2020-01-22 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] powerpc: Implement user_access_begin and friends Christophe Leroy
2020-01-23 12:05   ` Michael Ellerman
2020-01-23 12:31     ` Michael Ellerman
2020-01-24 11:40       ` Christophe Leroy
2020-01-22 18:24 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-01-22 20:00   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] fs/readdir: Fix filldir() and filldir64() use of user_access_begin() Linus Torvalds
2020-01-22 20:15     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-22 20:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-23  6:27       ` Christophe Leroy
2020-01-23 11:56 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-01-23 12:00   ` Michael Ellerman
2020-01-23 12:43     ` Christophe Leroy
2020-01-23 18:38     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-24 10:42       ` Michael Ellerman

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