On 2019/1/30 5:29 下午, Geliang Tang wrote: > This patch uses kmemdup_nul to create a NUL-terminated string from > dc->sb.label. This is better than open coding it. > > With this, we can move env[2] initialization into env[] array to make > code more elegant. > > Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxxxx> Hi Geliang, In general I am OK with your idea. But I feel there might be some regression with your change. I comment your patch in line, correct me if I am wrong. > --- > drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 10 ++++------ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c > index 4dee119c3664..84ab241c8516 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c > +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c > @@ -906,21 +906,18 @@ static int cached_dev_status_update(void *arg) > void bch_cached_dev_run(struct cached_dev *dc) > { > struct bcache_device *d = &dc->disk; > - char buf[SB_LABEL_SIZE + 1]; > + char *buf = kmemdup_nul(dc->sb.label, SB_LABEL_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); If kdumdup_null() is failed, buf will be NULL. > char *env[] = { > "DRIVER=bcache", > kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "CACHED_UUID=%pU", dc->sb.uuid), > - NULL, > + kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "CACHED_LABEL=%s", buf ? : ""), If buf is NULL, env[2] here is pointed to "" which is allocated in read-only data segment, and not a dynamic memory. > NULL, > }; > > - memcpy(buf, dc->sb.label, SB_LABEL_SIZE); > - buf[SB_LABEL_SIZE] = '\0'; > - env[2] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "CACHED_LABEL=%s", buf); > - > if (atomic_xchg(&dc->running, 1)) { > kfree(env[1]); > kfree(env[2]); Then kfree() here will try to release a read-only memory segment. I guess this is problematic. > + kfree(buf); > return; > } > > @@ -944,6 +941,7 @@ void bch_cached_dev_run(struct cached_dev *dc) > kobject_uevent_env(&disk_to_dev(d->disk)->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, env); > kfree(env[1]); > kfree(env[2]); Same problem might happen here for env[2]. > + kfree(buf); > > if (sysfs_create_link(&d->kobj, &disk_to_dev(d->disk)->kobj, "dev") || > sysfs_create_link(&disk_to_dev(d->disk)->kobj, &d->kobj, "bcache")) > -- Coly Li