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Message-Id: <20070503132253.7b6fe5fe.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:22:53 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] revoke: change revoke_table to fileset and
revoke_details
On Thu, 3 May 2007 17:53:07 +0300 (EEST)
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
>
> The revoke_table struct is overloaded because it serves two purposes:
> it manages the pre-allocated set of files and tracks the revoke
> operation so that we know where to start restore if the operation
> fails. This splits file set management to separate struct fileset and
> renames struct revoke_table to revoke_details.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> ---
> fs/revoke.c | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> 1 file changed, 101 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
>
> Index: 26-mm/fs/revoke.c
> ===================================================================
> --- 26-mm.orig/fs/revoke.c 2007-05-03 17:10:56.000000000 +0300
> +++ 26-mm/fs/revoke.c 2007-05-03 17:14:49.000000000 +0300
> @@ -18,19 +18,71 @@ * Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Pekka Enberg
> #include <linux/revoked_fs_i.h>
> #include <linux/syscalls.h>
>
> -/*
> - * This is used for pre-allocating an array of file pointers so that we don't
> - * have to do memory allocation under tasklist_lock.
> +/**
> + * fileset - an array of file pointers.
> + * @files: the array of file pointers
> + * @nr: number of elements in the array
> + * @end: index to next unused file pointer
> + */
> +struct fileset {
> + struct file **files;
> + unsigned long nr;
> + unsigned long end;
> +};
What's the locking protocol for all this?
> +static void free_fset(struct fileset *fset)
> +{
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = fset->end; i < fset->nr; i++)
> + fput(fset->files[i]);
> +
> + kfree(fset->files);
> + kfree(fset);
> +}
Confused. Shouldn't it be
for (i = 0; i < fset->end; i++)
?
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