Re: [PATCH 00/13] Rename k[v]free_rcu() single argument to k[v]free_rcu_mightsleep()

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> This small series is based on Paul's "dev" branch. Head is 6002817348a1c610dc1b1c01ff81654cdec12be4
> it renames a single argument of k[v]free_rcu() to its new k[v]free_rcu_mightsleep() name.
> 
> 1.
> The problem is that, recently we have run into a precedent when
> a user intended to give a second argument to kfree_rcu() API but
> forgot to do it in a code so a call became as a single argument
> of kfree_rcu() API.
> 
> 2.
> Such mistyping can lead to hidden bags where sleeping is forbidden.
> 
> 3.
> _mightsleep() prefix gives much more information for which contexts
> it can be used for.
> 
> Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) (13):
>   rcu/kvfree: Add kvfree_rcu_mightsleep() and kfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   drbd: Rename kvfree_rcu() to kvfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   misc: vmw_vmci: Rename kvfree_rcu() to kvfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   tracing: Rename kvfree_rcu() to kvfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   lib/test_vmalloc.c: Rename kvfree_rcu() to kvfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   net/sysctl: Rename kvfree_rcu() to kvfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   RDMA/rxe: Rename kfree_rcu() to kfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   net/mlx5: Rename kfree_rcu() to kfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   ext4/super: Rename kfree_rcu() to kfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   ipvs: Rename kfree_rcu() to kfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   rcuscale: Rename kfree_rcu() to kfree_rcu_mightsleep()
>   doc: Update whatisRCU.rst
>   rcu/kvfree: Eliminate k[v]free_rcu() single argument macro

Hi,

Not sure if you guys noticed but on latest rcu/dev:

net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c: In function ‘ip_vs_stop_estimator’:
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c:552:15: error: macro "kfree_rcu" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
   kfree_rcu(td);
               ^
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c:552:3: error: ‘kfree_rcu’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘kfree_skb’?
   kfree_rcu(td);
   ^~~~~~~~~
   kfree_skb
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c:552:3: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in


Thanks.