linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] erofs: redundant assignment in __erofs_get_meta

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:28:12 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
Cc:     Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>, weidu.du@...wei.com,
        Fang Wei <fangwei1@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] erofs: redundant assignment in
 __erofs_get_meta_page()

> -		err = bio_add_page(bio, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
> -		if (err != PAGE_SIZE) {
> +		if (bio_add_page(bio, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0) != PAGE_SIZE) {
>  			err = -EFAULT;
>  			goto err_out;
>  		}

This patch looks like an improvement.  But looking at that whole
area just makes me cringe.

Why is there __erofs_get_meta_page with the two weird booleans instead
of a single erofs_get_meta_page that gets and gfp_t for additional
flags and an unsigned int for additional bio op flags.

Why do need ioprio support to start with?  Seeing that in a new
fs look kinda odd.  Do you have benchmarks that show the difference?

That function then calls erofs_grab_bio, which tries to handle a
bio_alloc failure, except that the function will not actually fail
due the mempool backing it.  It also seems like and awfully
huge function to inline.

Why is there __submit_bio which really just obsfucates what is
going on?  Also why is __submit_bio using bio_set_op_attrs instead
of opencode it as the comment right next to it asks you to?

Also I really don't understand why you can't just use read_cache_page
or even read_cache_page_gfp instead of __erofs_get_meta_page.
That function is a whole lot of duplication of functionality shared
by a lot of other file systems.