linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpusets: restructure the function update_cpumask() and update

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Date:	Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:41:38 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	miaox@...fujitsu.com, Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpusets: restructure the function update_cpumask()
 and update_nodemask()

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:31:05 +0800 Miao Xie <miaox@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> extract two functions from update_cpumask() and update_nodemask().They will be
>> used later for updating tasks' cpus_allowed and mems_allowed after CPU/NODE
>> offline/online.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@...fujitsu.com>
>> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
> 
> This patch has problems.
> 
> kernel/cpuset.c: In function 'cpuset_write_resmask':
> kernel/cpuset.c:1374: warning: passing argument 2 of 'update_nodemask' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> 
> Did you not get this warning also?
> 
> I don't know how to fix it.  cftype.write_string() requires a const
> char* in the third arg, but we then go on to call update_nodemask(),
> which does a strstrip() on this allegedly-const char array.
> 

That strstrip() should be removed. because cgroup_write_string() already strstrip()ed
the buffer. Paul M's original patch removed that 2 strstrip()s in cpuset.c.

> Taking a copy of the string in update_nodemask() would fix things, but
> that's pretty lame.
> 
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