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authorJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2017-09-24 22:41:55 -0700
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2017-09-24 22:41:55 -0700
commit25eabb13c7d67ae32298015c5e28d00f604f412c (patch)
tree5bd75c2c1e385c79425bb099f0d19db7fb9c391f /lib/errseq.c
parentab5348c9c23cd253f5902980d2d8fe067dc24c82 (diff)
parente19b205be43d11bff638cad4487008c48d21c103 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.14-rc2' into next-general
Linux 4.14-rc2 Sync to v4.14-rc2 for security subsystem developers to track.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/errseq.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/errseq.c17
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/errseq.c b/lib/errseq.c
index 841fa24e6e00..7b900c2a277a 100644
--- a/lib/errseq.c
+++ b/lib/errseq.c
@@ -41,23 +41,20 @@
#define ERRSEQ_CTR_INC (1 << (ERRSEQ_SHIFT + 1))
/**
- * __errseq_set - set a errseq_t for later reporting
+ * errseq_set - set a errseq_t for later reporting
* @eseq: errseq_t field that should be set
- * @err: error to set
+ * @err: error to set (must be between -1 and -MAX_ERRNO)
*
* This function sets the error in *eseq, and increments the sequence counter
* if the last sequence was sampled at some point in the past.
*
* Any error set will always overwrite an existing error.
*
- * Most callers will want to use the errseq_set inline wrapper to efficiently
- * handle the common case where err is 0.
- *
- * We do return an errseq_t here, primarily for debugging purposes. The return
- * value should not be used as a previously sampled value in later calls as it
- * will not have the SEEN flag set.
+ * We do return the latest value here, primarily for debugging purposes. The
+ * return value should not be used as a previously sampled value in later calls
+ * as it will not have the SEEN flag set.
*/
-errseq_t __errseq_set(errseq_t *eseq, int err)
+errseq_t errseq_set(errseq_t *eseq, int err)
{
errseq_t cur, old;
@@ -107,7 +104,7 @@ errseq_t __errseq_set(errseq_t *eseq, int err)
}
return cur;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__errseq_set);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(errseq_set);
/**
* errseq_sample - grab current errseq_t value