Re: [PATCH 12/12] xfs: Remove the macro XFS_BUFTARG_NAME

[Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 17:34 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> Remove the definition and usages of the macro XFS_BUFTARG_NAME.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


Wow, I hadn't looked at the definition of
xfs_buf_target_name() before.  It's not safe
(using a pointer to since-released stack space),
though in practice it's going to be fine.

Defining it as an inline function with a static
buffer would at least avoid that, though it
means it's not reentrant either.

I would personally prefer doing it that way though.

/* NB: returns pointer to buffer reused on each call */
static inline char *
xfs_buf_target_name(struct xfs_buftarg *target)
{
        static char __b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];

        return bdevname(target->bt_bdev, __b);
}


Anyway, you didn't change this, but you're touching
the code that uses it.  So unless others object I
would like to see this changed along with the
rest of what you do here (which is all good, by
the way).

Either way:

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>


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