netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/8] move dropping ->ki_eventfd into iocb

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Message-ID: <20190311194622.GF12602@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:46:22 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>, kgraul@...ux.ibm.com,
        ktkhai@...tuozzo.com, kyeongdon.kim@....com,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, pabeni@...hat.com,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        zhengbin <zhengbin13@...wei.com>, bcrl@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        houtao1@...wei.com, yi.zhang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] move dropping ->ki_eventfd into iocb_destroy()

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 07:08:20AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Looks sensible, but a changelog would be nice.

>  	if (iocb->aio_flags & IOCB_FLAG_RESFD) {
> +		struct eventfd_ctx *eventfd;
>  		/*
>  		 * If the IOCB_FLAG_RESFD flag of aio_flags is set, get an
>  		 * instance of the file* now. The file descriptor must be
>  		 * an eventfd() fd, and will be signaled for each completed
>  		 * event using the eventfd_signal() function.
>  		 */
> +		eventfd = eventfd_ctx_fdget((int) iocb->aio_resfd);

I don't think there is any point in the cast in either the old or new
code.