linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats et al more carefully

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Message-ID: <20080907121557.GA3432@x200.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:15:57 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	ralf.hildebrandt@...rite.de, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats et al more
	carefully

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:57:13AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Sep 06, 2008  01:06 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > [PATCH] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats more carefully
> > 
> > ext4 creates per-suberblock directory in /proc/ext4/ . Name used as
> > basis is taken from bdevname, which, surprise, can contain slash.
> > 
> > However, proc while allowing to use proc_create("a/b", parent) form of
> > PDE creation, assumes that parent/a was already created.
> > 
> > bdevname in question is 'cciss/c0d0p9', directory is not created and all
> > this stuff goes directly into /proc (which is real bug).
> > 
> > --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> > @@ -2792,6 +2792,15 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_per_dev_proc(struct super_block *sb)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  	}
> >  	bdevname(sb->s_bdev, devname);
> > +	{
> > +		char *p = devname;
> > +
> > +		while (*p != '\0') {
> > +			if (*p == '/')
> > +				*p = '!';
> > +			p++;
> > +		}
> > +	}
> 
> Why not use strchr(), which is normally optimized assembly:
> 
> 	char *p = devname;
> 	while ((p = strchr(p, '/'))
> 		*p = '_';
> 
> Using '!' as the separator makes it harder to use from shells I suspect,
> so I'd suggest '_' instead.

bdevname is only 32 bytes and done once per mount, so nobody cares.

'!' is what other code does in this situation (reiserfs, md, ...).

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