Re: [V9fs-developer] [PATCH 1/2] net/9p: embed fcall in req to round down buffer allocs

[Dominique Martinet]

Greg Kurz wrote on Wed, Aug 01, 2018:
> > @@ -263,13 +261,13 @@ p9_tag_alloc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, unsigned int max_size)
> >  	if (!req)
> >  		return NULL;
> >  
> > -	req->tc = p9_fcall_alloc(alloc_msize);
> > -	req->rc = p9_fcall_alloc(alloc_msize);
> > -	if (!req->tc || !req->rc)
> > +	if (p9_fcall_alloc(&req->tc, alloc_msize))
> > +		goto free;
> > +	if (p9_fcall_alloc(&req->rc, alloc_msize))
> >  		goto free;
> 
> Hmm... if the first allocation fails, we will kfree() req->rc.sdata.
> 
> Are we sure we won't have a stale pointer or uninitialized data in
> there ?

Yeah, Jun pointed that out and I have a v2 that only frees as needed
with an extra goto (I sent an incremental diff in my reply to his
comment here[1])

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180731011256.GA30388@nautica

> And even if we don't with the current code base, this is fragile and
> could be easily broken.
> 
> I think you should drop this hunk and rather rename p9_fcall_alloc() to
> p9_fcall_alloc_sdata() instead, since this is what the function is
> actually doing with this patch applied.

Hmm. I agree the naming isn't accurate, but even if we rename it we'll
need to pass a pointer to fcall as argument as it inits its capacity.
p9_fcall_init(fc, msize) might be simpler?

(I'm not sure I follow what you mean by 'drop this hunk', to be honest,
did you want a single function call to init both maybe?)

-- 
Dominique