Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 8/9] fs: inotify: delete these unnecessary static variables it_zero and it_int_max

From: Jan Kara
Date: Wed Mar 20 2024 - 06:36:15 EST


On Tue 19-03-24 23:57:49, wenyang.linux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Delete unnecessary static variables (it_zero and it_int_max)
> and encode them directly in the table entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This looks as a sensible cleanup but I don't see the first patch in the
series (and neither it is archived at lore.kernel.org) so I cannot really
verify whether your conversion is correct...

Honza

> ---
> fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 49 +++++++++++++-------------------
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
> index 85d8fdd55329..b346d61179ea 100644
> --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
> +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
> @@ -55,36 +55,27 @@ struct kmem_cache *inotify_inode_mark_cachep __ro_after_init;
>
> #include <linux/sysctl.h>
>
> -static long it_zero = 0;
> -static long it_int_max = INT_MAX;
> -
> static struct ctl_table inotify_table[] = {
> - {
> - .procname = "max_user_instances",
> - .data = &init_user_ns.ucount_max[UCOUNT_INOTIFY_INSTANCES],
> - .maxlen = sizeof(long),
> - .mode = 0644,
> - .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
> - .extra1 = &it_zero,
> - .extra2 = &it_int_max,
> - },
> - {
> - .procname = "max_user_watches",
> - .data = &init_user_ns.ucount_max[UCOUNT_INOTIFY_WATCHES],
> - .maxlen = sizeof(long),
> - .mode = 0644,
> - .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
> - .extra1 = &it_zero,
> - .extra2 = &it_int_max,
> - },
> - {
> - .procname = "max_queued_events",
> - .data = &inotify_max_queued_events,
> - .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> - .mode = 0644,
> - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
> - .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO
> - },
> + CTL_TABLE_ENTRY_MINMAX("max_user_instances",
> + &init_user_ns.ucount_max[UCOUNT_INOTIFY_INSTANCES],
> + sizeof(long),
> + 0644,
> + proc_doulongvec_minmax,
> + SYSCTL_NUMERIC_ZERO,
> + SYSCTL_NUMERIC_INT_MAX),
> + CTL_TABLE_ENTRY_MINMAX("max_user_watches",
> + &init_user_ns.ucount_max[UCOUNT_INOTIFY_WATCHES],
> + sizeof(long),
> + 0644,
> + proc_doulongvec_minmax,
> + SYSCTL_NUMERIC_ZERO,
> + SYSCTL_NUMERIC_INT_MAX),
> + CTL_TABLE_ENTRY_MIN("max_queued_events",
> + &inotify_max_queued_events,
> + sizeof(int),
> + 0644,
> + proc_dointvec_minmax,
> + SYSCTL_NUMERIC_ZERO),
> };
>
> static void __init inotify_sysctls_init(void)
> --
> 2.25.1
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR