Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] Revert "Staging: lustre: o2iblnd: Use sizeof type *pointer instead of sizeof type."

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 05:39:36AM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
> On 2016/03/22, 19:49, "lustre-devel on behalf of Greg Kroah-Hartman"
> <lustre-devel-bounces@lists.lustre.org on behalf of
> gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 06:21:04PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> >> Latest testing fails when using ko2iblnd. It was tracked down
> >> to commit 4671a026616df26000f7d8ad2f2ea4b6de79263c.
> >> 
> >> This reverts commit 4671a026616df26000f7d8ad2f2ea4b6de79263c.
> >> ---
> >>  .../staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c    |    4 ++--
> >>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c
> >>b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c
> >> index 89f9390..0d32e65 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c
> >> @@ -1968,7 +1968,7 @@ static int kiblnd_net_init_pools(kib_net_t *net,
> >>__u32 *cpts, int ncpts)
> >>  	 */
> >>  
> >>  	net->ibn_fmr_ps = cfs_percpt_alloc(lnet_cpt_table(),
> >> -					   sizeof(*net->ibn_fmr_ps));
> >> +					   sizeof(kib_fmr_poolset_t));
> >
> >Ok, why is this revert needed?  Please give me a big huge comment about
> >why this is not the same size of the variable being assigned to it,
> >otherwise someone else is going to come along and make the exact same
> >change again.
> >
> >>  	if (!net->ibn_fmr_ps) {
> >>  		CERROR("Failed to allocate FMR pool array\n");
> >>  		rc = -ENOMEM;
> >> @@ -1992,7 +1992,7 @@ static int kiblnd_net_init_pools(kib_net_t *net,
> >>__u32 *cpts, int ncpts)
> >>  
> >>   create_tx_pool:
> >>  	net->ibn_tx_ps = cfs_percpt_alloc(lnet_cpt_table(),
> >> -					  sizeof(*net->ibn_tx_ps));
> >> +					  sizeof(kib_tx_poolset_t));
> >
> >Same here, why is this code wrong?
> 
> Looks like the declarations are:
> 
>         kib_tx_poolset_t	**ibn_tx_ps;	/* tx pool-set */
> 	kib_fmr_poolset_t	**ibn_fmr_ps;	/* fmr pool-set */
> 
> 
> 
> so the right code should be:
> 
>         sizeof(**net->ibn_tx_ps);
> 
> 
> and the same for sizeof(**net->ibn_fmr_ps)

That's a mess, isn't there some other way to fix this up to be more
"obvious"?

thanks,

greg k-h