From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C80118BC2F; Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:35:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1743028560; cv=none; b=ra/5th/BS6jeHlxV2UxFV6BjjZIxyJFyq2rtHlDLtSfRTOT86s61EMg1Db+stKwkU28l+3BeCLAd3ykduKhg+6nptbtr/g8rFxuq5PICxdD+lS/2XaGMHM2SdI5/QAPQGxERWmgdA1jqJtC1qVyEiTHWm1eS3ehQZW7eJWFNPEg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1743028560; c=relaxed/simple; bh=eOTKzmRs+bwoW5lr5TNvNEtSGFqce0QMmgSQHH0xkMM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=asi8w3SgjJ9NfDjpHKNM/aVFn6IoZuvJPC1LOYd34XXHt2hifodpm0+Z69U+q2GgkkhOmLBo4H4IVe32J0LjxbdT7mVni3Gl7x7Un2YFdVr+ExdI6odqguHXb0+riwmT8g4cUTphDRwiTFrVFeSxDN40Yyzhq0WhJeUHabgjYwc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=qokUbgcG; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="qokUbgcG" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 84079C4CEE5; Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:35:57 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1743028559; bh=eOTKzmRs+bwoW5lr5TNvNEtSGFqce0QMmgSQHH0xkMM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=qokUbgcG8rzF734QjCiM09F2xGV9YyKqr59sZjOR7SXH+rbIEC8RV46/5J2lVhZMu m01RWqyOp5Fim68h4UYoKkQ3MO8gzKN0P3Eo9Z75jV4FyPM4fYlyz6A/N1kRCIfvGR eheZ2qSSkVAtapZS8LVYJiulLAG2yXNVYadbWH6I2vJgaT49Z42O/nct4XmadMQ+V0 mSQEx0DWFd4iVX5671HXui+NsRYy7Q75LnDUwwhA2IV7mEpWYG90Oqow0nU1seA2hX XGtxclvUk6yZlve3beJPvMVgE40IhRPdsvkgFNhrCkq0+WTm73TS9O//i+zYg001SQ tRmE0bRsbimVg== Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:35:54 -0700 From: Nathan Chancellor To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Kees Cook , Andy Shevchenko , Nick Desaulniers , Bill Wendling , Justin Stitt , Ard Biesheuvel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] lib/string.c: Add wcslen() Message-ID: <20250326223554.GB378784@ax162> References: <20250326-string-add-wcslen-for-llvm-opt-v2-0-d864ab2cbfe4@kernel.org> <20250326-string-add-wcslen-for-llvm-opt-v2-2-d864ab2cbfe4@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: llvm@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 08:39:37PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM Nathan Chancellor wrote: > > #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNLEN > > extern __kernel_size_t strnlen(const char *,__kernel_size_t); > > #endif > > +extern __kernel_size_t wcslen(const wchar_t *s); > > I'm wondering why we still continue putting this 'extern' keyword. > Yes, I see that the rest is like this, but for new code do we really > need it? Yeah, I just did it to keep it consistent with what is around it but there should be no reason that it cannot be removed. I am happy to do that in v3 if desired. Cheers, Nathan