On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 01:22:15PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 10/11/19 9:41 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> >Adding kmemdup() will help improve portability from linux kernel
> >code (in my case, lib/crypto/x509_cert_parser.c and pkcs7_parser.c).
> >
> >Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.aka...@linaro.org>
> >---
> > include/linux/compat.h | 4 ++--
> > lib/linux_compat.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
> >index d0f51baab407..d23ef50454ce 100644
> >--- a/include/linux/compat.h
> >+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
> >@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ static inline void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache
> >*cachep)
> > free(cachep);
> > }
> >
> >+void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t size, int flags);
>
> kememdup() is already implemented in fs/ubifs/ubifs.c and used both in
> drivers/mtd/ and in fs/ubifs/.
Good catch, I haven't noticed that.
ubifs.c is a very bad place for that function.
# drivers/mtd/mtd*.c doesn't use it as relevant code is guarded by
"#ifndef __UBOOT__" though.
> Why would you want to use a different signature than both the Linux
> kernel and current U-Boot?
>
> >+
> > #define DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(...) do { } while (0)
> > #define add_wait_queue(...) do { } while (0)
> > #define remove_wait_queue(...) do { } while (0)
> >@@ -346,8 +348,6 @@ struct writeback_control {
> > unsigned for_sync:1; /* sync(2) WB_SYNC_ALL writeback */
> > };
> >
> >-void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
> >-
> > typedef int irqreturn_t;
> >
> > struct timer_list {};
> >diff --git a/lib/linux_compat.c b/lib/linux_compat.c
> >index 6373b4451eb3..dd1e5b3c2087 100644
> >--- a/lib/linux_compat.c
> >+++ b/lib/linux_compat.c
> >@@ -40,3 +40,14 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *obj, int flag)
> > {
> > return malloc_cache_aligned(obj->sz);
> > }
> >+
> >+void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t size, int flags)
> >+{
>
> You should not duplicate the implementation in the UBI filesystem.
> Instead move the existing implementation to a place that can be linked
> in your future work.
Okay, I'll remove it from ubifs.c.
Thanks,
-Takahiro Akashi
> Best regards
>
> Heinrich
>
> >+ void *p;
> >+
> >+ p = kmalloc(size, flags);
> >+ if (p)
> >+ memcpy(p, src, size);
> >+
> >+ return p;
> >+}
> >
>
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