linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] iversion: make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} return bool instead of s64

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Message-Id: <20180130203221.29310-1-jlayton@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:32:21 -0500
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, trondmy@...marydata.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] iversion: make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} return bool instead of s64

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>

As Linus points out:

    The inode_cmp_iversion{+raw}() functions are pure and utter crap.

    Why?

    You say that they return 0/negative/positive, but they do so in a
    completely broken manner. They return that ternary value as the
    sequence number difference in a 's64', which means that if you
    actually care about that ternary value, and do the *sane* thing that
    the kernel-doc of the function implies is the right thing, you would
    do

        int cmp = inode_cmp_iversion(inode, old);
        if (cmp < 0 ...

    and as a result you get code that looks sane, but that doesn't
    actually *WORK* right.

Since none of the callers actually care about the ternary value here,
convert the inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} functions to just return a boolean
value (false for matching, true for non-matching).

This matches the existing use of these functions just fine, and makes it
simple to convert them to return a ternary value in the future if we
grow callers that need it.

With this change we can also reimplement inode_cmp_iversion in a simpler
way using inode_peek_iversion.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/iversion.h | 20 ++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/iversion.h b/include/linux/iversion.h
index 858463fca249..3d2fd06495ec 100644
--- a/include/linux/iversion.h
+++ b/include/linux/iversion.h
@@ -309,13 +309,13 @@ inode_query_iversion(struct inode *inode)
  * @inode: inode to check
  * @old: old value to check against its i_version
  *
- * Compare the current raw i_version counter with a previous one. Returns 0 if
- * they are the same or non-zero if they are different.
+ * Compare the current raw i_version counter with a previous one. Returns false
+ * if they are the same or true if they are different.
  */
-static inline s64
+static inline bool
 inode_cmp_iversion_raw(const struct inode *inode, u64 old)
 {
-	return (s64)inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode) - (s64)old;
+	return inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode) != old;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -323,19 +323,15 @@ inode_cmp_iversion_raw(const struct inode *inode, u64 old)
  * @inode: inode to check
  * @old: old value to check against its i_version
  *
- * Compare an i_version counter with a previous one. Returns 0 if they are
- * the same, a positive value if the one in the inode appears newer than @old,
- * and a negative value if @old appears to be newer than the one in the
- * inode.
+ * Compare an i_version counter with a previous one. Returns false if they are
+ * the same, and true if they are different.
  *
  * Note that we don't need to set the QUERIED flag in this case, as the value
  * in the inode is not being recorded for later use.
  */
-
-static inline s64
+static inline bool
 inode_cmp_iversion(const struct inode *inode, u64 old)
 {
-	return (s64)(inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode) & ~I_VERSION_QUERIED) -
-	       (s64)(old << I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT);
+	return inode_peek_iversion(inode) != old;
 }
 #endif
-- 
2.14.3