Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix an undefined behaviour in _da3_path_shift

[Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>]

On Tue, 2020-02-25 at 10:07 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I think we code do this a tad more cleaner, something like:
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c
> index 875e04f82541..542a4edfcf54 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c
> @@ -1986,7 +1986,8 @@ xfs_da3_path_shift(
>  	ASSERT(path != NULL);
>  	ASSERT((path->active > 0) && (path->active < XFS_DA_NODE_MAXDEPTH));
>  	level = (path->active-1) - 1;	/* skip bottom layer in path */
> -	for (blk = &path->blk[level]; level >= 0; blk--, level--) {
> +	for ( ; level >= 0; level--) {
> +		blk = &path->blk[level];
>  		xfs_da3_node_hdr_from_disk(dp->i_mount, &nodehdr,
>  					   blk->bp->b_addr);
>  

Yes, indeed. I'll send a v2 until Darrick is still not convinced that

"path->active == 1" could reach here?