linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] jffs2: safely remove obsolete dirent from the f->dents list

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Date:   Fri, 4 May 2018 16:06:24 +0800
From:   yuyufen <yuyufen@...wei.com>
To:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
CC:     <Joakim.Tjernlund@...inera.com>, <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jffs2: safely remove obsolete dirent from the f->dents
 list


On 2018/4/28 6:22, David Woodhouse wrote:
> This looks a lot better than the first iteration; thank you for getting
> it to this point. One last thing, I hope...
> On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 20:00 +0800, Yufen Yu wrote:
>> --- a/fs/jffs2/jffs2_fs_i.h
>> +++ b/fs/jffs2/jffs2_fs_i.h
>> @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ struct jffs2_inode_info {
>>          /* Directory entries */
>>          struct jffs2_full_dirent *dents;
>>   
>> +       /* Directory open refcount */
>> +       atomic_t nr_dir_opening;
>> +
>> +       /* obsolete dirent count in the list of 'dents' */
>> +       unsigned int obsolete_count;
>> +
>>          /* The target path if this is the inode of a symlink */
>>          unsigned char *target;
>>   
> You've made JFFS2_INVALID_LIMIT 64, which is reasonable enough
> (although it's a bit of a weird name and possibly wants to be more
> specific — invalid *what*?).
Thansk a lot for your suggestions.

Yes, it is really a bad name. How about JFFS2_OBS_DIRENT_LIMIT?  I am 
not sure.

>
> So the maximum interesting value of ->obsolete_count is 64. Which means
> it might as well be a uint8_t and sit in the padding after the
> 'usercompr' field.
>
> It might be useful to look at putting the mutually exclusive fields in
> struct jffs2_inode_info into a union, and then we don't need the
> additional space of the atomic_t either; we'll never need that *and*
> the fragtree at the same time... will we?
You are right, thanks. But, obsolete_count may be large. So, I apply to 
use uint16_t and
it also sits in the padding after the 'usercompr' field.

Thanks,
Yufen