netdev - Re: [PATCH 26/32] aio: refactor read/write iocb setup

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:19:53 -0500
From:   Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>,
        linux-aio@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/32] aio: refactor read/write iocb setup

Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> writes:

> Don't reference the kiocb structure from the common aio code, and move
> any use of it into helper specific to the read/write path.  This is in
> preparation for aio_poll support that wants to use the space for different
> fields.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

I think this all looks okay (making sure everything was still cleaned up
in the error cases was a bit of a chore).  One nit below.

> +static int aio_prep_rw(struct kiocb *req, struct iocb *iocb)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	req->ki_filp = fget(iocb->aio_fildes);
> +	if (unlikely(!req->ki_filp))
> +		return -EBADF;
> +	req->ki_complete = aio_complete_rw;
> +	req->ki_flags = 0;

The above assignment seems superfluous...

> +	req->ki_pos = iocb->aio_offset;
> +	req->ki_flags = iocb_flags(req->ki_filp);

because of this.

Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>