Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: Improve comments for sgx_encl_lookup/alloc_backing()

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Jul 28 2022 - 09:47:08 EST


On 7/28/22 00:58, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 11:21:19AM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
>> Modify the comments for sgx_encl_lookup_backing() and for
>> sgx_encl_alloc_backing() to indicate that they take a reference
>> which must be dropped with a call to sgx_encl_put_backing().
>> Make sgx_encl_lookup_backing() static for now, and change the
>> name of sgx_encl_get_backing() to __sgx_encl_get_backing() to
>> make it more clear that sgx_encl_get_backing() is an internal
>> function.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> The rename is unnecessary.

Well, it was done to address some reviewer confusion:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/YtUs3MKLzFg+rqEV@xxxxxxx/

I wouldn't call it unnecessary. Heck, I'd argue that the one of the
main reasons that this code leaked memory in the first place was the
naming and lack of comments.