linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 05/49] fs/buffer: comment on direct access to bvec table

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Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2017 04:16:16 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/49] fs/buffer: comment on direct access to bvec
 table

> +	/*
> +	 * It is safe to truncate the last bvec in the following way
> +	 * even though multipage bvec is supported, but we need to
> +	 * fix the parameters passed to zero_user().
> +	 */
> +	struct bio_vec *bvec = &bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_vcnt - 1];

A 'we need to fix XXX' comment isn't very useful.  Just fix it in the
series (which I suspect you're going to do anyway).

Also a bio_last_vec helper might be nice for something like this and
documents properly converted places much better than these comments.