Re: inline_hunter 0.2 and it's results

[Denis Vlasenko]

> disasm, diff of
> void inline_copy_from_user_3(void) { copy_from_user(0,0,0); }
> yields:
>
> --- copy_from_user_43   Tue Apr 20 23:40:07 2004
> +++ copy_from_user_56   Tue Apr 20 23:41:23 2004
> @@ -11,11 +11,16 @@
>         39 5a 18                cmp    %ebx,0x18(%edx)
>         83 d9 00                sbb    $0x0,%ecx
>         85 c9                   test   %ecx,%ecx
> -       75 0b                   jne    XXXX <inline_copy_from_user_3+0x28>
> +       75 0d                   jne    XXXX <inline_copy_from_user_3+0x2a>
>         31 c9                   xor    %ecx,%ecx
>         31 d2                   xor    %edx,%edx
>         31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
>         e8 fc ff ff ff          call   XXXX <inline_copy_from_user_3+0x24>
> +       eb 0b                   jmp    XXXX <inline_copy_from_user_3+0x35>
> +       31 c9                   xor    %ecx,%ecx
> +       31 d2                   xor    %edx,%edx
> +       31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
> +       e8 4f 01 00 00          call   XXXX <__constant_c_and_count_memset>
>         5b                      pop    %ebx
>         c9                      leave
>         c3                      ret
>
> oops... we've got files which do not honor 'inline' on
> __constant_c_and_count_memset()! For example,
>
> fs/open.c:
> ==========
> #include <linux/string.h>
>         this pulls __constant_c_and_count_memset()
> #include <linux/mm.h>
>         this pulls <compiler.h>, re#defining
>         inline == __inline__ __attribute__((always_inline)).
>         too late!
> #include <linux/utime.h>
>
> Will do patch tomorrow.

All affected files #include strings.h
This should fix it. Untested.
-- 
vdadiff -urN linux-2.6.5/include/linux/string.h linux-2.6.5.fixed_includes/include/linux/string.h
--- linux-2.6.5/include/linux/string.h	Sun Apr  4 06:36:56 2004
+++ linux-2.6.5.fixed_includes/include/linux/string.h	Wed Apr 21 09:17:32 2004
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
+#include <linux/compiler.h>	/* for inline */
 #include <linux/types.h>	/* for size_t */
 #include <linux/stddef.h>	/* for NULL */