Re: [PATCH 2/3] nios2: Cleanup deprecated function strlen_user
From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Apr 20 2021 - 10:49:57 EST
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 04:32:33PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 3:37 PM <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > $ grep strlen_user * -r
> > arch/csky/include/asm/uaccess.h:#define strlen_user(str) strnlen_user(str, 32767)
> > arch/csky/lib/usercopy.c: * strlen_user: - Get the size of a string in user space.
> > arch/ia64/lib/strlen.S: // Please note that in the case of strlen() as opposed to strlen_user()
> > arch/mips/lib/strnlen_user.S: * make strlen_user and strnlen_user access the first few KSEG0
> > arch/nds32/include/asm/uaccess.h:extern __must_check long strlen_user(const char __user * str);
> > arch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h:extern __must_check long strlen_user(const char __user *str);
> > arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h:extern long __must_check strlen_user(const char __user *str);
> > kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h:static nokprobe_inline int fetch_store_strlen_user(unsigned long addr);
> > kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h: ret += fetch_store_strlen_user(val + code->offset);
> > kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c:fetch_store_strlen_user(unsigned long addr)
> > kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:fetch_store_strlen_user(unsigned long addr)
> > kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c: return fetch_store_strlen_user(addr);
>
> I would suggest using "grep strlen_user * -rw", to let the whole-word match
> filter out the irrelevant ones for the changelog.
>
> > See grep result, nobody uses it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> All three patches
>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Do you want me to pick them up in the asm-generic tree?
Might make sense to check -next from time to time... See
a0d8d552783b "whack-a-mole: kill strlen_user() (again)" in there