Re: [PATCH] refscale: Optimize process_durations()

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On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 08:41:39AM +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Le 31/10/2023 à 23:47, Paul E. McKenney a écrit :
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 11:21:14AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 09:55:16AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2023, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > process_durations() is not a hot path, but there is no good reason to
> > > > > iterate over and over the data already in 'buf'.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Using a seq_buf saves some useless strcat() and the need of a temp buffer.
> > > > > Data is written directly at the correct place.
> > > > 
> > > > Makes sense.
> > > > 
> > > > Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Queued and pushed, thank you all!
> > 
> > But an allmodconfig build complains about seq_buf_putc() being undefined,
> > that is, not exported.  I suspect that other seq_buf_*() functions in
> > this patch might also be complained about.
> > 
> > I am dropping this for the moment.  Please make it pass an allmodconfig
> > build so that I can pull it in again.  Please see below for the commit.
> 
> Ouch!

Believe me, I know that feeling!  ;-)

> seq_buf_init(), seq_buf_terminate(), seq_buf_clear() are inlined functions
> in a .h file, so shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> seq_buf_printf() is exported, but seq_buf_putc() is not!
> Really odd to me.
> 
> Kees Cook (added in cc) suggests to use this API (see [1]) to avoid some
> potential issues and ease the management of NULL terminated strings in
> buffers. (#LinuxHardening).
> 
> I'll propose to add the missing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

Very good, looking forward to seeing the result.

							Thanx, Paul

> CJ
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202310241629.0A4206316F@keescook/
> 



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