Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 2 authors, 2021-07-11

Re: [PATCH -tip 6/6] kprobes: Use bool type for functions which returns boolean value

From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: 2021-07-10 16:27:34
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: the rest, tracing · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu

On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 23:56 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
Use the 'bool' type instead of 'int' for the functions which
returns a boolean value, because this makes clear that those
functions don't return any error code.
[]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
[]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -104,25 +104,25 @@ struct kprobe {
 #define KPROBE_FLAG_FTRACE	8 /* probe is using ftrace */
 

 /* Has this kprobe gone ? */
-static inline int kprobe_gone(struct kprobe *p)
+static inline bool kprobe_gone(struct kprobe *p)
 {
 	return p->flags & KPROBE_FLAG_GONE;
 }
This change would also allow the removal of the !! from:

kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:104:        return !!(kprobe_gone(&tk->rp.kp));
---
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index ea6178cb5e334..c6e0345a44e94 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static nokprobe_inline unsigned long trace_kprobe_offset(struct trace_kprobe *tk
 
 static nokprobe_inline bool trace_kprobe_has_gone(struct trace_kprobe *tk)
 {
-	return !!(kprobe_gone(&tk->rp.kp));
+	return kprobe_gone(&tk->rp.kp);
 }
 
 static nokprobe_inline bool trace_kprobe_within_module(struct trace_kprobe *tk,

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