Re: [PATCH] Fix up xfs_buf_associate_memory()

[Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@xxxxxxx>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:29:06PM +1100, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> > Fixed a few bugs in xfs_buf_associate_memory() including:
> >
> > - calculation of 'page_count' was incorrect as it did not
> >   consider the offset of 'mem' into the first page.  The
> >   logic to bump 'page_count' didn't work if 'len' was <=
> >   PAGE_CACHE_SIZE (ie offset = 3k, len = 2k).
> > - setting b_buffer_length to 'len' is incorrect if
> >   'offset' is > 0.  Set it to the total length of the
> >   buffer.
> > - I suspect that passing a non-aligned address into
> >   mem_to_page() for the first page may have been causing
> >   issues - don't know but just tidy up that code anyway.
> >
> > These fixes prevent an data corruption issue that can
> > occur during log replay.
>
> Last time I tried to clean up this gem everything went bezerk, so be
> aware :)
>
>
> --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c_1.247	2007-11-23 12:03:16.000000000 +1100
> +++ fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c	2007-11-23 12:02:32.000000000 +1100
> @@ -726,14 +726,14 @@ xfs_buf_associate_memory(
>  	int			rval;
>  	int			i = 0;
>  	size_t			ptr;
> +	size_t			buflen;
>  	off_t			offset;
>  	int			page_count;
>  
> +	ptr = (size_t) mem & PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
> +	offset = (off_t) mem - (off_t) ptr;
>
> Casting pointers to size_t or off_t makes little sense, these should be
> unsigned long.  And using a variable name of ptr is quite odd :)

I just left those as they were before the change.  I'll tidy them too.

> +   while (i < bp->b_page_count) {
> +               bp->b_pages[i++] = mem_to_page((void *)ptr);
>                 ptr += PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
>         }
>
> This could be much cleaner written as:
>
>         for (i = 0; i < bp->b_page_count; i++) {
>                 bp->b_pages[i] = mem_to_page((void *)ptr);
>                 ptr += PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
>         }

Fine with me.

Thanks.