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[v3,05/49] fs/buffer: comment on direct access to bvec table

Message ID 20170808084548.18963-6-ming.lei@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
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Ming Lei Aug. 8, 2017, 8:45 a.m. UTC
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
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 fs/buffer.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig Aug. 10, 2017, 11:16 a.m. UTC | #1
> +	/*
> +	 * It is safe to truncate the last bvec in the following way
> +	 * even though multipage bvec is supported, but we need to
> +	 * fix the parameters passed to zero_user().
> +	 */
> +	struct bio_vec *bvec = &bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_vcnt - 1];

A 'we need to fix XXX' comment isn't very useful.  Just fix it in the
series (which I suspect you're going to do anyway).

Also a bio_last_vec helper might be nice for something like this and
documents properly converted places much better than these comments.
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diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 5715dac7821f..c821ed6a6f0e 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -3054,8 +3054,13 @@  static void end_bio_bh_io_sync(struct bio *bio)
 void guard_bio_eod(int op, struct bio *bio)
 {
 	sector_t maxsector;
-	struct bio_vec *bvec = &bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_vcnt - 1];
 	unsigned truncated_bytes;
+	/*
+	 * It is safe to truncate the last bvec in the following way
+	 * even though multipage bvec is supported, but we need to
+	 * fix the parameters passed to zero_user().
+	 */
+	struct bio_vec *bvec = &bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_vcnt - 1];
 
 	maxsector = i_size_read(bio->bi_bdev->bd_inode) >> 9;
 	if (!maxsector)