Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] fs/ntfs3: Use new api for mounting

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Aug 16 2021 - 08:36:44 EST


> +/*
> + * ntfs_load_nls
> + *

No need to state the function name here.

> + * Load nls table or if @nls is utf8 then return NULL because
> + * nls=utf8 is totally broken.
> + */
> +static struct nls_table *ntfs_load_nls(char *nls)
> +{
> + struct nls_table *ret;
> +
> + if (!nls)
> + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> + if (strcmp(nls, "utf8"))
> + return NULL;
> + if (strcmp(nls, CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT))
> + return load_nls_default();
> +
> + ret = load_nls(nls);
> + if (!ret)
> + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +
> + return ret;
> +}

This looks like something quite generic and not file system specific.
But I haven't found time to look at the series from Pali how this all
fits together.

> +// clang-format off

Please don't use C++ comments. And we also should not put weird
formatter annotations into the kernel source anyway.

> +static void ntfs_default_options(struct ntfs_mount_options *opts)
> {
> opts->fs_uid = current_uid();
> opts->fs_gid = current_gid();
> + opts->fs_fmask_inv = ~current_umask();
> + opts->fs_dmask_inv = ~current_umask();
> + opts->nls = ntfs_load_nls(CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT);
> +}

This function seems pretty pointless with a single trivial caller.

> +static int ntfs_fs_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param)

Please avoid the overly long line.

> + break;
> + case Opt_showmeta:
> + opts->showmeta = result.negated ? 0 : 1;
> + break;
> + case Opt_nls:
> + unload_nls(opts->nls);
> +
> + opts->nls = ntfs_load_nls(param->string);
> + if (IS_ERR(opts->nls)) {
> + return invalf(fc, "ntfs3: Cannot load nls %s",
> + param->string);
> }

So instead of unloading here, why not set keep a copy of the string
in the mount options structure and only load the actual table after
option parsing has finished?

> + struct ntfs_mount_options *new_opts = fc->s_fs_info;

Does this rely on the mount_options being the first member in struct
ntfs_sb_info? If so that is a landmine for future changes.

> +/*
> + * Set up the filesystem mount context.
> + */
> +static int ntfs_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
> +{
> + struct ntfs_sb_info *sbi;
> +
> + sbi = ntfs_zalloc(sizeof(struct ntfs_sb_info));

Not related to your patch, but why does ntfs3 have kmalloc wrappers
like this?