linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] init: split get_fs

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Date:   Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:09:16 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtio-fs@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] init: split get_fs_names

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 08:26:56AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> -static void __init get_fs_names(char *page)
> +static void __init split_fs_names(char *page, char *names)

If you're going to respin it anyway, can you rename 'page' to 'buf'
or something?  Kind of confusing to have a char * called 'page'.

>  {
> +	strcpy(page, root_fs_names);
> +	while (*page++) {
> +		if (page[-1] == ',')
> +			page[-1] = '\0';
> +	}
> +	*page = '\0';
> +}

is it really worth doing a strcpy() followed by a custom strtok()?
would this work better?

	char c;

	do {
		c =  *root_fs_names++;
		*buf++ = c;
		if (c == ',')
			buf[-1] = '\0';
	} while (c);

> +static void __init get_all_fs_names(char *page)
> +{
> +	int len = get_filesystem_list(page);

it occurs to me that get_filesystem_list() fails silently.  if you build
every linux filesystem in, and want your root on zonefs (assuming
they're alphabetical), we'll fail to find it without a message
indicating that we overflowed the buffer.