* Dominik Brodowski <li...@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 08:37:19AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Dominik Brodowski <li...@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:
> >
> > > --- a/fs/open.c
> > > +++ b/fs/open.c
> > > @@ -1200,7 +1200,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(close, unsigned int, fd)
> > >
> > > return retval;
> > > }
> > > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_close);
> > > +
> > >
> > > /*
> >
> > Nit: this introduces a stray newline.
> >
> > > --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> > > @@ -1042,4 +1042,10 @@ static inline long ksys_lchown(const char __user
> > > *filename, uid_t user,
> > > return do_fchownat(AT_FDCWD, filename, user, group,
> > > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
> > > }
> > > +
> > > +extern int __close_fd(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd);
> > > +static inline int ksys_close(unsigned int fd)
> > > +{
> > > + return __close_fd(current->files, fd);
> > > +}
> >
> > Would be nice to reuse that stray newline after the __close_fd() prototype
> > for the
> > canonical stylistic separation of declarations from definitions.
> >
> > It would also be very nice to add a short comment before ksys_close() that
> > explains how it differs from sys_close(). This should reduce the amount of
> > cargo-cult copying of existing ksys_close()/sys_close() patterns.
>
> Thanks, have done that:
>
> /*
> * In contrast to sys_close(), this stub does not check whether the
> syscall
> * should or should not be restarted, but returns the raw error codes
> from
> * __close_fd().
> */
>
> Is that ok?
Yeah, looks good to me!
Thanks,
Ingo
