Hi Al
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> From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Al Viro
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 8:49 AM
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> Subject: [PATCH 02/14] d_path: saner calling conventions for __dentry_path()
>
> 1) lift NUL-termination into the callers
> 2) pass pointer to the end of buffer instead of that to beginning.
>
> (1) allows to simplify dentry_path() - we don't need to play silly
> games with restoring the leading / of "//deleted" after __dentry_path()
> would've overwritten it with NUL.
>
> We also do not need to check if (either) prepend() in there fails -
> if the buffer is not large enough, we'll end with negative buflen
> after prepend() and __dentry_path() will return the right value
> (ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG)) just fine.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/d_path.c | 33 +++++++++++++--------------------
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/d_path.c b/fs/d_path.c
> index 01df5dfa1f88..1a1cf05e7780 100644
> --- a/fs/d_path.c
> +++ b/fs/d_path.c
> @@ -326,22 +326,21 @@ char *simple_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char
> *buffer, int buflen)
> /*
> * Write full pathname from the root of the filesystem into the buffer.
> */
I suggest adding the comments to remind NUL terminator should be prepended
before invoking __dentry_path()
--
Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)
> -static char *__dentry_path(const struct dentry *d, char *buf, int buflen)
> +static char *__dentry_path(const struct dentry *d, char *p, int buflen)
> {
> const struct dentry *dentry;
> char *end, *retval;
> int len, seq = 0;
> int error = 0;
>
> - if (buflen < 2)
> + if (buflen < 1)
> goto Elong;
>
> rcu_read_lock();
> restart:
> dentry = d;
> - end = buf + buflen;
> + end = p;
> len = buflen;
> - prepend(&end, &len, "", 1);
> /* Get '/' right */
> retval = end-1;
> *retval = '/';
> @@ -373,27 +372,21 @@ static char *__dentry_path(const struct dentry *d,
> char *buf, int buflen)
>
> char *dentry_path_raw(const struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)
> {
> - return __dentry_path(dentry, buf, buflen);
> + char *p = buf + buflen;
> + prepend(&p, &buflen, "", 1);
> + return __dentry_path(dentry, p, buflen);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(dentry_path_raw);
>
> char *dentry_path(const struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)
> {
> - char *p = NULL;
> - char *retval;
> -
> - if (d_unlinked(dentry)) {
> - p = buf + buflen;
> - if (prepend(&p, &buflen, "//deleted", 10) != 0)
> - goto Elong;
> - buflen++;
> - }
> - retval = __dentry_path(dentry, buf, buflen);
> - if (!IS_ERR(retval) && p)
> - *p = '/'; /* restore '/' overriden with '\0' */
> - return retval;
> -Elong:
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
> + char *p = buf + buflen;
> +
> + if (unlikely(d_unlinked(dentry)))
> + prepend(&p, &buflen, "//deleted", 10);
> + else
> + prepend(&p, &buflen, "", 1);
> + return __dentry_path(dentry, p, buflen);
> }
>
> static void get_fs_root_and_pwd_rcu(struct fs_struct *fs, struct path
> *root,
> --
> 2.11.0
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