Re: [PATCH for-next v2 1/4] null_blk: generate null_blk configfs features string

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On Jan 06, 2025 / 14:43, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 12/25/24 7:09 PM, Shin'ichiro Kawasaki wrote:
> > The null_blk configfs file 'features' provides a string that lists
> > available null_blk features for userspace programs to reference.
> > The string is defined as a long constant in the code, which tends to be
> > forgotten for updates. It also causes checkpatch.pl to report
> > "WARNING: quoted string split across lines".
> > 
> > To avoid these drawbacks, generate the feature string on the fly. Refer
> > to the ca_name field of each element in the nullb_device_attrs table and
> > concatenate them in the given buffer. Also, modify order of the
> > nullb_device_attrs table to not change the list order of the generated
> > string.
> > 
> > Of note is that the feature "index" was missing before this commit.
> > This commit adds it to the generated string.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Nice cleanup ! One nit below. And with that fixed, feel free to add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, but I modified the patch for v3 based on Bart's comment, so still
have not yet added your Reviewed-by tag.

> 
> > @@ -704,16 +708,27 @@ nullb_group_drop_item(struct config_group *group, struct config_item *item)
> >  
> >  static ssize_t memb_group_features_show(struct config_item *item, char *page)
> >  {
> > -	return snprintf(page, PAGE_SIZE,
> > -			"badblocks,blocking,blocksize,cache_size,fua,"
> > -			"completion_nsec,discard,home_node,hw_queue_depth,"
> > -			"irqmode,max_sectors,mbps,memory_backed,no_sched,"
> > -			"poll_queues,power,queue_mode,shared_tag_bitmap,"
> > -			"shared_tags,size,submit_queues,use_per_node_hctx,"
> > -			"virt_boundary,zoned,zone_capacity,zone_max_active,"
> > -			"zone_max_open,zone_nr_conv,zone_offline,zone_readonly,"
> > -			"zone_size,zone_append_max_sectors,zone_full,"
> > -			"rotational\n");
> > +
> > +	struct configfs_attribute **entry;
> > +	const char *fmt = "%s,";
> > +	size_t left = PAGE_SIZE;
> > +	size_t written = 0;
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	for (entry = &nullb_device_attrs[0]; *entry && left > 0; entry++) {
> > +		if (!*(entry + 1))
> > +			fmt = "%s\n";
> > +		ret = snprintf(page + written, left, fmt, (*entry)->ca_name);
> > +		if (ret >= left) {
> > +			WARN_ONCE(1, "Too many null_blk features to print\n");
> > +			memzero_explicit(page, PAGE_SIZE);
> > +			return 0;
> 
> Let's return an error here. Maybe "-EFBIG" ?

Thanks. I checked errno.h and found -ENOBUFS looks appropriate.

> Note that we are nowhere near to hit this though, nor should we ever reach a 4K
> string length for null_blk features :)

Right, I have same understanding.





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