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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: John Groves <John@groves.net>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	 linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, John Groves <jgroves@micron.com>,
	john@jagalactic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] sget_dev() bug fix: dev_t passed by value but stored via stack address
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:16:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240410-mitnahm-loyal-151d4312b017@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a37d4832e0c2e7cfe8000b0bf47dcc2c50d78d0.1712704849.git.john@groves.net>

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 06:31:44PM -0500, John Groves wrote:
> The ref vs. value logic used by sget_dev() was ungood, storing the
> stack address of the key (dev_t) rather than the value of the key.
> This straightens that out.
> 
> In the sget_dev() path, the (void *)data passed to the test and set
> helpers should be the value of the dev_t, not its address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Groves <john@groves.net>
> ---

Afaict there's nothing wrong with the current logic so I'm missing your
point here. It's casting to a dev_t and then dereferencing it. So I
don't think this patch makes sense.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-10 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-09 23:31 [PATCH 0/1] sget_dev() minor bug fix John Groves
2024-04-09 23:31 ` [PATCH 1/1] sget_dev() bug fix: dev_t passed by value but stored via stack address John Groves
2024-04-10  9:18   ` kernel test robot
2024-04-10 10:16   ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2024-04-10 13:38     ` John Groves
2024-04-10 15:23       ` Christian Brauner
2024-04-10 21:24         ` John Groves
2024-04-17  5:06   ` kernel test robot

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