On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:55:59AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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 Only one caller passes ATTR_ALLOC - the ACL code. The other two have their own buffers that are supplied.... > 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. Can't overwrite args->valuelen until we've done the ERANGE check. Sure, I could put it in a local variable, but that doesn't reduce the amount of code, or make it obvious that we intentionally return the attribute size when the supplied buffer it too small... > > + /* 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. ok. > > + 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. Fixed. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx