Re: [PATCH v3] isofs compress: Remove VLA usage

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 04:45:32PM -0700, Kyle Spiers wrote:
> As part of the effort to remove VLAs from the kernel[1], this changes
> the allocation of the bhs and pages arrays from being on the stack to being
> kcalloc()ed. This also allows for the removal of the explicit zeroing
> of bhs.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621

Do you even bother reading the feedback given to such patches?  I'm just
curious,

> @@ -80,7 +81,9 @@ static loff_t zisofs_uncompress_block(struct inode *inode, loff_t block_start,
>  
>  	/* Because zlib is not thread-safe, do all the I/O at the top. */
>  	blocknum = block_start >> bufshift;
> -	memset(bhs, 0, (needblocks + 1) * sizeof(struct buffer_head *));
> +	bhs = kcalloc(needblocks + 1, sizeof(*bhs), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!bhs)
> +		return -ENOMEM;

... because I distinctly remember comments along the lines of "check what
other failure exits look like in there, such as
                *errp = -EIO;
                return 0;
nearby".

> @@ -330,6 +334,10 @@ static int zisofs_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page)
>  		full_page = 0;
>  		pcount = 1;
>  	}
> +	pages = kcalloc(max_t(unsigned int, zisofs_pages_per_cblock, 1),
> +					sizeof(*pages), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!pages)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>  	pages[full_page] = page;

What, in your opinion, is going to unlock that page after that failure exit?