netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] gen_stats.c: Duplicate xstats buffer for later use

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Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2015 13:32:35 +0100
From:	'Ignacy Gawedzki' <ignacy.gawedzki@...en-communications.fr>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] gen_stats.c: Duplicate xstats buffer for later
 use

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 12:26:17PM +0000, thus spake David Laight:
> Looking at this again, isn't the purpose of the 'void *st' to pass
> down a temporary buffer that is 'big enough' ?

The buffer is large enough at the time of the call, yes.  But the thing is
that in most of the actual callers, it is an automatic variable in the
caller's frame, while the buffer is actually used at a later point when
gnet_stats_finish_copy() is called (when that frame doesn't exist anymore).

I'm about to send a revised version of the patch that also corrects a few
shortcomings in the management of the dynamically allocated buffer w.r.t. the
acquired lock.

Ignacy

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Ignacy Gawędzki
R&D Engineer
Green Communications
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