Re: [PATCH 7/7] nfsd: nfs4xdr decode_stateid helper function

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On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:31:54AM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote:
> On Aug. 12, 2008, 22:04 +0300, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:46:18PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c |   99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> >>  1 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> >> index 47ac498..9570b1b 100644
> >> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> >> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> >>  static __be32
> >> @@ -929,9 +939,10 @@ nfsd4_decode_write(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp, struct nfsd4_write *write)
> >>  	int len;
> >>  	DECODE_HEAD;
> >>  
> >> -	READ_BUF(sizeof(stateid_opaque_t) + 20);
> >> -	READ32(write->wr_stateid.si_generation);
> >> -	COPYMEM(&write->wr_stateid.si_opaque, sizeof(stateid_opaque_t));
> >> +	status = nfsd4_decode_stateid(argp, &write->wr_stateid);
> >> +	if (status)
> >> +		return status;
> >> +	READ_BUF(16);
> > 
> > How did that 20 become a 16?
> 
> It was sizeof(stateid_opaque_t) + 20 == sizeof(stateid_t) - 4 + 20 ==
> sizeof(stateid_t) + 16.

Whoops!  Even now I still fall into the stateid_opaque_t/stateid_t trap!

> > OK, I guess this is another case of a preexisting arithmetic error.
> > Anywhere that error would have had immediate consequences, but here
> > thanks to the hand-coded write-data decoding, the incorrect argp->p
> > isn't used except to check that there's space for the incoming data.
> > And previously that check was more pessimistic than necessary.
> 
> Oddly enough, the hand coded calculation was fine, as shown above...
> Note that the remaining 16 bytes correspond to one READ64
> and two READ32s.

Got it.

--b.

> 
> Benny
> 
> > 
> > --b.
> > 
> >>  	READ64(write->wr_offset);
> >>  	READ32(write->wr_stable_how);
> >>  	if (write->wr_stable_how > 2)
> >> -- 
> >> 1.5.6.5
> >>
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