[PATCH v3 06/11] mm/util: Deduplicate code in {kstrdup, kstrndup, kmemdup_nul}

Yafang Shao laoar.shao at gmail.com
Sun Jun 23 02:29:30 UTC 2024


On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 9:57 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 10:29:54AM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > +++ b/mm/internal.h
>
> Why are you putting __kstrndup in a header file when it's only used
> in util.c?

I want to make it always inlined. However, it is not recommended to
define an inline function in a .c file, right ?

>
> Also, I think this function is actually __kmemdup_nul(), not
> __kstrndup().
>

Good suggestion. Will use __kmemdup_nul() instead.

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Regards
Yafang



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