linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bcache: make checkings for sb.nr_in_set and sb.nr_this

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Message-ID: <2c190f49-ffde-c6eb-e632-3f53832a3d83@suse.de>
Date:   Mon, 1 Nov 2021 13:29:12 +0800
From:   Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>
To:     Lin Feng <linf@...gsu.com>
Cc:     linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kent.overstreet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcache: make checkings for sb.nr_in_set and
 sb.nr_this_dev to be more precise

On 11/1/21 11:07 AM, Lin Feng wrote:
> Commit 697e23495c94f0380c1ed8b11f830b92b64c99ea
> ("bcache: explicitly make cache_set only have single cache")
> explicitly makes a cache_set only have single cache and based on the
> fact that historily only one cache is ever used in the cache set, so
> valid number fo sb.nr_in_set should be 1 and sb.nr_this_dev should
> always be 0.
>
> Based on above truth, codes validations for sb.nr_in_set and sb.nr_this_dev
> can make to be more accurate, that means tolerance for error checking
> are reduced comparing before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linf@...gsu.com>

Hi Lin,

Thanks for the patch up. I add this change to my for-test directory.

Coly Li


> ---
>   drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h | 2 +-
>   drivers/md/bcache/super.c  | 4 +---
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h b/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
> index 5fc989a6d452..a4a410a178c0 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
> +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
> @@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ static inline uint8_t ptr_stale(struct cache_set *c, const struct bkey *k,
>   static inline bool ptr_available(struct cache_set *c, const struct bkey *k,
>   				 unsigned int i)
>   {
> -	return (PTR_DEV(k, i) < MAX_CACHES_PER_SET) && c->cache;
> +	return (PTR_DEV(k, i) == 0) && c->cache;
>   }
>   
>   /* Btree key macros */
> diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
> index f2874c77ff79..2253044c9289 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
> @@ -140,9 +140,7 @@ static const char *read_super_common(struct cache_sb *sb,  struct block_device *
>   		goto err;
>   
>   	err = "Bad cache device number in set";
> -	if (!sb->nr_in_set ||
> -	    sb->nr_in_set <= sb->nr_this_dev ||
> -	    sb->nr_in_set > MAX_CACHES_PER_SET)
> +	if (sb->nr_in_set != 1 || sb->nr_this_dev != 0)
>   		goto err;
>   
>   	err = "Journal buckets not sequential";