dynamic_debug: use pointer comparison in ddebug_remove_module
authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Fri, 8 Mar 2019 00:27:41 +0000 (16:27 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Mar 2019 02:32:00 +0000 (18:32 -0800)
commit4573fe15437c909d5a06a01750125e2a06829370
tree61bbabd0d55420773ec4e331774658f20447e2ac
parentcdf6d00696865ae1c46750059fd7d248323712f9
dynamic_debug: use pointer comparison in ddebug_remove_module

Now that we store the passed-in string directly in ddebug_add_module, we
can use pointer equality instead of strcmp.  This is a little more
efficient, but more importantly, this also makes the code somewhat more
correct:

Currently, if one loads and then unloads a module whose name happens to
match the KBUILD_MODNAME of some built-in functionality (which need not
even be modular at all), all of their dynamic debug entries vanish along
with those of the actual module.  For example, loading and unloading a
core.ko hides all pr_debugs from drivers/base/core.c and other built-in
files called core.c (incidentally, there is an in-tree module whose name
is core, but I just tested this with an out-of-tree trivial one).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190212214150.4807-7-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/dynamic_debug.c