Re: [malware-list] [RFC 3/11] fanotify: fscking all notify, system wide file access notification

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 05:18:24PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify.h b/fs/notify/fanotify.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..d6bc0c0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
> +#ifndef _LINUX_FANOTIFY_PRIVATE_H
> +#define _LINUX_FANOTIFY_PRIVATE_H
> +
> +#include <linux/fanotify.h>
> +
> +
> +#include <asm/atomic.h>
> +#include <linux/dcache.h>
> +#include <linux/list.h>
> +#include <linux/mutex.h>
> +#include <linux/path.h>
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +#include <linux/wait.h>

<asm/> includes after <linux/> please.

> +
> +extern int check_notification_queue(struct fanotify_group *group);
> +extern void get_event(struct fanotify_event *event);
> +extern void put_event(struct fanotify_event *event);
> +extern int add_event_to_group_notification(struct fanotify_group *group, struct fanotify_event *event);
> +extern struct fanotify_event *remove_event_from_group_notification(struct fanotify_group *group);
> +extern struct fanotify_event *create_event(struct file *file, unsigned int mask);
> +extern struct fanotify_event_holder *alloc_event_holder(void);
> +extern void destroy_event_holder(struct fanotify_event_holder *holder);

Those are some pretty generic global function names (get_event?).
Please add a fanotify_ to the front of them to help developers
understand them and to not polute the global name space.

> +extern __init int fanotify_notification_init(void);
> +extern __init int fanotify_notification_uninit(void);
> +
> +extern void fanotify_get_group(struct fanotify_group *group);
> +extern void fanotify_put_group(struct fanotify_group *group);
> +extern int fanotify_register_group(char *name, unsigned int mask);
> +extern int fanotify_unregister_group(char *name, unsigned int mask);

Like you did here nicely :)

> +DEFINE_MUTEX(groups_mutex);
> +struct srcu_struct groups_srcu_struct;
> +LIST_HEAD(groups);

Again with the generic global symbol names.

thanks,

greg k-h