On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:40 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 05:20:03PM +0100, Tigran Mkrtchyan wrote: >> +static void >> +put_stateid(struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate, stateid_t *stateid) >> +{ >> + if (cstate->minorversion) >> + cstate->current_stateid = stateid; >> +} > ... >> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ struct nfsd4_compound_state { >> size_t iovlen; >> u32 minorversion; >> u32 status; >> + const stateid_t *current_stateid; >> }; > > I'd be more comfortable with passing stateid's by value rather than by > reference. > > Presumably you're only ever pointing into one of the argument or result > structures which are currently guaranteed to be around for as long as > the compound is processed. > > But it'd seem safer not to have to worry about the lifetime of the > pointed-to data at all, and just copy the stateid--it's only 16 bytes. Sure, it's only 16 bytes. Nevertheless, there are no allocation or de-allocation of it. It just pointing to an existing stateid. Should be safe to use pointer. And yes, it's just 16 bytes, but if we can avoid to copy them why not? Of course I can change it if you want to. Tigran. > > --b. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html