On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 02:23:50PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > + * If ATTR_ALLOC is set in @flags, allocate the buffer for the value after > + * existence of the attribute has been determined. On success, return that > + * buffer to the caller and leave them to free it. On failure, free any > + * allocated buffer and ensure the buffer pointer returned to the caller is > + * null. Given that all three callers pass ATTR_ALLOC, do we even need a flag and keep the old behavior around, at least at the xfs_attr_get level? For the lower level we still have scrub, but that fills out the args structure directly. > +static int > +xfs_attr_copy_value( > + struct xfs_da_args *args, > + unsigned char *value, > + int valuelen) > +{ > + /* > + * No copy if all we have to do is get the length > + */ > + if (args->flags & ATTR_KERNOVAL) { > + args->valuelen = valuelen; > + return 0; > + } > + > + /* > + * No copy if the length of the existing buffer is too small > + */ > + if (args->valuelen < valuelen) { > + args->valuelen = valuelen; > + return -ERANGE; > + } > + > + if (args->op_flags & XFS_DA_OP_ALLOCVAL) { > + args->value = kmem_alloc_large(valuelen, KM_SLEEP); > + if (!args->value) > + return -ENOMEM; > + } > + args->valuelen = valuelen; Can't we just move the setting of ->valuelen up to common code shared between all the branches? That means it would also be set on an allocation error, but that should be harmless. > + /* remote block xattr requires IO for copy-in */ > + if (args->rmtblkno) > + return xfs_attr_rmtval_get(args); > + > + /* > + * This is to prevent a GCC warning because the remote xattr case > + * doesn't have a value to pass in. In that case, we never reach here, > + * but GCC can't work that out and so throws a "passing NULL to > + * memcpy" warning. > + */ > + if (!value) > + return -EINVAL; > + memcpy(args->value, value, valuelen); > + return 0; > +} Can you split creating this helper into a separate prep patch? While not strictly required it would make reviewing what is consolidation vs what is new code for the on-demand buffer allocation a little easier. > + error = xfs_attr_get(ip, ea_name, (unsigned char **)&xfs_acl, &len, > + ATTR_ALLOC|ATTR_ROOT); Please keep space between the symbols and | on each side.