linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rdma-next v3 2/3] lib/scatterlist: Fix wrong update of orig

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Date:   Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:45:45 +0300
From:   Maor Gottlieb <maorg@...dia.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
CC:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next v3 2/3] lib/scatterlist: Fix wrong update of
 orig_nents


On 8/23/2021 3:45 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 02:09:37PM +0300, Maor Gottlieb wrote:
>> On 8/20/2021 6:54 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:39:12PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> +/**
>>>> + * __sg_free_table - Free a previously mapped sg table
>>>> + * @table:	The sg table header to use
>>>> + * @max_ents:	The maximum number of entries per single scatterlist
>>>> + * @total_ents:	The total number of entries in the table
>>>> + * @nents_first_chunk: Number of entries int the (preallocated) first
>>>> + *                     scatterlist chunk, 0 means no such preallocated
>>>> + *                     first chunk
>>>> + * @free_fn:	Free function
>>>> + *
>>>> + *  Description:
>>>> + *    Free an sg table previously allocated and setup with
>>>> + *    __sg_alloc_table().  The @max_ents value must be identical to
>>>> + *    that previously used with __sg_alloc_table().
>>>> + *
>>>> + **/
>>>> +void __sg_free_table(struct sg_table *table, unsigned int max_ents,
>>>> +		     unsigned int nents_first_chunk, sg_free_fn *free_fn)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	sg_free_table_entries(table, max_ents, nents_first_chunk, free_fn,
>>>> +			      table->orig_nents);
>>>> +}
>>>>    EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sg_free_table);
>>> This is getting a bit indirect, there is only one caller of
>>> __sg_free_table() in sg_pool.c, so may as well just export
>>> sg_free_table_entries have have it use that directly.
>> So I can just extend __sg_free_table to get number of entries. What do you
>> think?
> Isn't the point here that different paths to __sg_free_table require
> different entries? What do you mean?

I mean that  __sg_free_table will get the number of entries. sg_pool 
will call it with table->orig_nents and sg_free_append_table will call 
it with with total_nents.

> Jason