From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [[PATCH v1] 13/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Implement SMBD protocol negotiation Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 03:22:25 -0700 Message-ID: <20170813102225.GF17287@infradead.org> References: <1501704648-20159-1-git-send-email-longli@exchange.microsoft.com> <1501704648-20159-14-git-send-email-longli@exchange.microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Steve French , linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, samba-technical-w/Ol4Ecudpl8XjKLYN78aQ@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Long Li To: Long Li Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1501704648-20159-14-git-send-email-longli-Lp/cVzEoVyZiJJESP9tAQJZ3qXmFLfmx@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: > + request = mempool_alloc(info->request_mempool, GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!request) > + return rc; Here you do a mempool allocation to guarantee forward progress.. > + request->sge = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ib_sge), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!request->sge) > + goto allocate_sge_failed; ... and here it's a plain malloc in the same path, which renders the above useless. Also I would just embedd the sge into the containing structure to avoid a memory allocation. > + request->info = info; > + > + packet = (struct smbd_negotiate_req *) request->packet; > + packet->min_version = cpu_to_le16(0x100); > + packet->max_version = cpu_to_le16(0x100); Canyou add a constant for the version code? > + packet->reserved = cpu_to_le16(0); no need to byte swap 0 - you can always assign it directly.