Re: [PATCH 2/4] devcoredump: allow to create several coredump files in one device

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Thu May 02 2019 - 08:48:12 EST


On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 17:59 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
>
> static void devcd_del(struct work_struct *wk)
> {
> struct devcd_entry *devcd;
> + int i;
>
> devcd = container_of(wk, struct devcd_entry, del_wk.work);
>
> + for (i = 0; i < devcd->num_files; i++) {
> + device_remove_bin_file(&devcd->devcd_dev,
> + &devcd->files[i].bin_attr);
> + }

Not much value in the braces?

> +static struct devcd_entry *devcd_alloc(struct dev_coredumpm_bulk_data *files,
> + int num_files, gfp_t gfp)
> +{
> + struct devcd_entry *devcd;
> + int i;
> +
> + devcd = kzalloc(sizeof(*devcd), gfp);
> + if (!devcd)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + devcd->files = kcalloc(num_files, sizeof(devcd->files[0]), gfp);
> + if (!devcd->files) {
> + kfree(devcd);
> + return NULL;
> + }
> + devcd->num_files = num_files;

IMHO it would be nicer to allocate all of this in one struct, i.e. have

struct devcd_entry {
...
struct devcd_file files[];
}

(and then use struct_size())

> @@ -309,7 +339,41 @@ void dev_coredumpm(struct device *dev, struct module *owner,
> put_module:
> module_put(owner);
> free:
> - free(data);
> + for (i = 0; i < num_files; i++)
> + files[i].free(files[i].data);
> +}

and then you don't need to do all this kind of thing to free

Otherwise looks fine. I'd worry a bit that existing userspace will only
capture the 'data' file, rather than a tarball of all files, but I guess
that's something you'd have to work out then when actually desiring to
use multiple files.

johannes