From: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
To: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>,
Sandu Popa Marius <sandupopamarius@gmail.com>,
Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl>,
"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@gmail.com>,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/41] VFS: Make lookup_hash() return a struct path
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:24:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091210212434.GC10388@shell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911300604.nAU64D0s021921@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:04:13AM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <1256152779-10054-4-git-send-email-vaurora@redhat.com>, Valerie Aurora writes:
>
> > @@ -1937,7 +1942,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(filp_open);
> > */
> > struct dentry *lookup_create(struct nameidata *nd, int is_dir)
> > {
> > - struct dentry *dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
> > + struct path path = { .dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST) } ;
>
> I assume the compiler will initialize path.mnt to NULL. Is NULL what you
> want? Even if the compiler guarantees it, I think you should either
> explicitly init .mnt to NULL or leave a comment explaining what's going on
> -- so no future code reader will think that this was omitted; a comment can
> clarify your intentions more explicitly.
That is an unpleasant thing to look at. I rewrote the exit paths so
that this initialization was unnecessary.
Thanks,
-VAL
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-10 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-21 19:18 [RFC PATCH 00/40] Writable overlays (union mounts) Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:18 ` [PATCH 01/41] VFS: BUG() if somebody tries to rehash an already hashed dentry Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 02/41] VFS: propagate mnt_flags into do_loopback Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 03/41] VFS: Make lookup_hash() return a struct path Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 04/41] VFS: Remove unnecessary micro-optimization in cached_lookup() Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 05/41] VFS: Make real_lookup() return a struct path Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 06/41] VFS: Introduce dput() variant that maintains a kill-list Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 07/41] VFS: Add read-only users count to superblock Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 08/41] Don't replace nameidata path when following links Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 09/41] whiteout: Don't return information about whiteouts to userspace Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 10/41] whiteout: Add vfs_whiteout() and whiteout inode operation Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 11/41] whiteout: Set S_OPAQUE inode flag when creating directories Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 12/41] union-mount: Allow removal of a directory Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 13/41] whiteout: tmpfs whiteout support Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 14/41] whiteout: Split of ext2_append_link() from ext2_add_link() Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 15/41] whiteout: ext2 whiteout support Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 16/41] whiteout: jffs2 " Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 17/41] whiteout: Add path_whiteout() helper Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 18/41] union-mount: Documentation Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 19/41] union-mount: Introduce MNT_UNION and MS_UNION flags Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 20/41] union-mount: Introduce union_mount structure Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 21/41] union-mount: Drive the union cache via dcache Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 22/41] union-mount: Some checks during namespace changes Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 23/41] union-mount: Changes to the namespace handling Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 24/41] union-mount: Make lookup work for union-mounted file systems Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 25/41] union-mount: stop lookup when directory has S_OPAQUE flag set Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 26/41] union-mount: stop lookup when finding a whiteout Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 27/41] union-mount: in-kernel file copy between union mounted filesystems Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 28/41] union-mount: call do_whiteout() on unlink and rmdir Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 29/41] union-mount: Always create topmost directory on open Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 30/41] fallthru: Basic fallthru definitions Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 31/41] fallthru: Support for fallthru entries in union mount lookup Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 32/41] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 33/41] fallthru: jffs2 " Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 34/41] fallthru: tmpfs " Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 35/41] union-mount: Copy up directory entries on first readdir() Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 36/41] union-mount: Increment read-only users count for read-only layer Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 37/41] union-mount: Check read-only/read-write status of layers Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 38/41] union-mount: Make pivot_root work with union mounts Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 39/41] union-mount: Ignore read-only file system in permission checks Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 40/41] union-mount: Make truncate work in all its glorious UNIX variations Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 41/41] union-mount: Add support for rename by __union_copyup() Valerie Aurora
2009-12-01 4:57 ` Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:50 ` [PATCH 40/41] union-mount: Make truncate work in all its glorious UNIX variations Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:34 ` [PATCH 39/41] union-mount: Ignore read-only file system in permission checks Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:26 ` [PATCH 38/41] union-mount: Make pivot_root work with union mounts Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:18 ` [PATCH 35/41] union-mount: Copy up directory entries on first readdir() Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:17 ` [PATCH 34/41] fallthru: tmpfs fallthru support Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:17 ` [PATCH 33/41] fallthru: jffs2 " Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:17 ` [PATCH 32/41] fallthru: ext2 " Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:15 ` [PATCH 31/41] fallthru: Support for fallthru entries in union mount lookup Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:14 ` [PATCH 30/41] fallthru: Basic fallthru definitions Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:14 ` [PATCH 29/41] union-mount: Always create topmost directory on open Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:13 ` [PATCH 27/41] union-mount: in-kernel file copy between union mounted filesystems Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:11 ` [PATCH 26/41] union-mount: stop lookup when finding a whiteout Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:10 ` [PATCH 25/41] union-mount: stop lookup when directory has S_OPAQUE flag set Erez Zadok
2009-12-01 4:10 ` [PATCH 24/41] union-mount: Make lookup work for union-mounted file systems Erez Zadok
2009-11-30 9:15 ` [PATCH 23/41] union-mount: Changes to the namespace handling Erez Zadok
2009-11-30 9:04 ` [PATCH 22/41] union-mount: Some checks during namespace changes Erez Zadok
2009-11-30 8:57 ` [PATCH 21/41] union-mount: Drive the union cache via dcache Erez Zadok
2009-11-30 8:46 ` [PATCH 20/41] union-mount: Introduce union_mount structure Erez Zadok
2010-01-26 22:38 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-30 8:02 ` [PATCH 19/41] union-mount: Introduce MNT_UNION and MS_UNION flags Erez Zadok
2010-01-26 20:03 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-12-01 5:37 ` [PATCH 18/41] union-mount: Documentation Erez Zadok
2009-11-30 7:57 ` [PATCH 17/41] whiteout: Add path_whiteout() helper Erez Zadok
2010-01-26 20:02 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 22:50 ` [PATCH 16/41] whiteout: jffs2 whiteout support David Woodhouse
2009-10-27 2:21 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-30 7:51 ` Erez Zadok
2010-01-26 19:52 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-10-21 21:17 ` [PATCH 15/41] whiteout: ext2 " Andreas Dilger
2009-10-27 2:14 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-30 7:45 ` Erez Zadok
2009-11-30 6:32 ` [PATCH 14/41] whiteout: Split of ext2_append_link() from ext2_add_link() Erez Zadok
2009-11-30 6:26 ` [PATCH 13/41] whiteout: tmpfs whiteout support Erez Zadok
2010-01-21 2:02 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-30 6:13 ` [PATCH 12/41] union-mount: Allow removal of a directory Erez Zadok
2010-01-21 0:52 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-10-27 14:36 ` [PATCH 10/41] whiteout: Add vfs_whiteout() and whiteout inode operation Eric Paris
2009-10-27 21:22 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-30 3:04 ` Erez Zadok
2010-01-21 0:35 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-30 2:53 ` [PATCH 09/41] whiteout: Don't return information about whiteouts to userspace Erez Zadok
2010-01-21 0:19 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-30 2:44 ` [PATCH 08/41] Don't replace nameidata path when following links Erez Zadok
2009-11-30 2:33 ` [PATCH 07/41] VFS: Add read-only users count to superblock Erez Zadok
2009-11-30 2:28 ` [PATCH 06/41] VFS: Introduce dput() variant that maintains a kill-list Erez Zadok
2010-01-20 23:31 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-30 2:11 ` [PATCH 05/41] VFS: Make real_lookup() return a struct path Erez Zadok
2009-11-30 2:07 ` [PATCH 04/41] VFS: Remove unnecessary micro-optimization in cached_lookup() Erez Zadok
2009-12-10 21:25 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-30 2:02 ` [PATCH 03/41] VFS: Make lookup_hash() return a struct path Erez Zadok
2009-12-10 21:23 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-11-30 6:04 ` Erez Zadok
2009-12-10 21:24 ` Valerie Aurora [this message]
2009-11-30 1:43 ` [PATCH 01/41] VFS: BUG() if somebody tries to rehash an already hashed dentry Erez Zadok
2009-12-10 20:20 ` Valerie Aurora
2009-10-22 2:44 ` [RFC PATCH 00/40] Writable overlays (union mounts) hooanon05
2009-10-27 2:23 ` Valerie Aurora
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