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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/5] gfs2: Add xreaddir file operation and supporting functions
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:58:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140729145808.79bec165@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406309888-10749-6-git-send-email-adas@redhat.com>

On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:38:08 -0500
Abhi Das <adas@redhat.com> wrote:

> This patch adds support in GFS2 for the xgetdents syscall by
> implementing the xreaddir file operation.

So I was trying to make sense of this, and ran into one little thing that
jumped out at me:

> +static int gfs2_xrdir_to_user_vars(struct gfs2_xrdir_ctx *xc,
> +				   struct gfs2_xdirent *x,
> +				   struct gfs2_xdirent *x_vb_p,
> +				   struct linux_xdirent __user *lxd,
> +				   size_t count, size_t *bytes)

Now, I'll readily admit that I could be overly confused by this function.
When the variables are named "x", "xx", "xc", "x_vb_p", "xblob", and "lxd",
it all starts to run together.  But still...

> +	if ((xc->xc_xattr_mask & XSTAT_XATTR_ALL) &&
> +		lxd->xd_blob.xb_xattr_count) {

How can that be right?  lxd is __user, it doesn't seem right to be
dereferencing it directly...?

Thanks,

jon



  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-29 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25 17:38 [Cluster-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] xgetdents system call Abhi Das
2014-07-25 17:38 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/5] fs: xstat system call VFS bits Abhi Das
2014-07-25 18:17   ` Bob Peterson
2014-07-25 17:38 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/5] fs: Add xgetdents system call and xreaddir file operation Abhi Das
2014-07-29  8:20   ` Michael Kerrisk
2014-07-25 17:38 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC PATCH 3/5] gfs2: Add a dynamic buffer backed by a vector of pages Abhi Das
2014-07-25 18:42   ` Bob Peterson
2014-07-25 17:38 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/5] gfs2: Add sort functionality with extra parameter Abhi Das
2014-07-25 17:38 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/5] gfs2: Add xreaddir file operation and supporting functions Abhi Das
2014-07-29 18:58   ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2014-07-29 22:25     ` Abhijith Das
2014-07-30  9:06       ` Steven Whitehouse
2014-07-30 13:57       ` Jonathan Corbet
2014-07-29  8:18 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] xgetdents system call Michael Kerrisk

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