[PATCH ghak25 v2 2/9] netfilter: normalize ebtables function declarations

Florian Westphal fw at strlen.de
Mon Jan 6 20:30:44 UTC 2020


Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> Git context diffs were being produced with unhelpful declaration types
> in the place of function names to help identify the funciton in which
> changes were made.
> 
> Normalize ebtables function declarations so that git context diff
> function labels work as expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>

I suggest that you also drop the inline keyword for all functions
that are called from control path, for example

> -static inline void *
> -find_inlist_lock_noload(struct list_head *head, const char *name, int *error,
> -			struct mutex *mutex)
> +static inline void *find_inlist_lock_noload(struct list_head *head,
> +					    const char *name, int *error,
> +					    struct mutex *mutex)

> -static inline struct ebt_table *
> -find_table_lock(struct net *net, const char *name, int *error,
> -		struct mutex *mutex)
> +static inline struct ebt_table *find_table_lock(struct net *net,

> -static inline int
> -ebt_check_match(struct ebt_entry_match *m, struct xt_mtchk_param *par,
> -		unsigned int *cnt)
> +
> +static inline int ebt_check_match(struct ebt_entry_match *m,

> -static inline int
> -ebt_check_watcher(struct ebt_entry_watcher *w, struct xt_tgchk_param *par,
> -		  unsigned int *cnt)

> -static inline int
> -ebt_check_entry_size_and_hooks(const struct ebt_entry *e,

> -static inline int
> -ebt_get_udc_positions(struct ebt_entry *e, struct ebt_table_info *newinfo,
> -		      unsigned int *n, struct ebt_cl_stack *udc)

> -static inline int
> -ebt_cleanup_match(struct ebt_entry_match *m, struct net *net, unsigned int *i)

> -static inline int
> -ebt_cleanup_watcher(struct ebt_entry_watcher *w, struct net *net, unsigned int *i)

> -static inline int
> -ebt_cleanup_entry(struct ebt_entry *e, struct net *net, unsigned int *cnt)

> -static inline int
> -ebt_check_entry(struct ebt_entry *e, struct net *net,
> -		const struct ebt_table_info *newinfo,
> -		const char *name, unsigned int *cnt,
> -		struct ebt_cl_stack *cl_s, unsigned int udc_cnt)

.. can all have 'inline' removed.  Other than that this looks good to me.





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