Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: clean up splice code

From: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
Date: Mon Feb 09 2009 - 13:37:38 EST


On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:26:20PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
>>> @@ -2573,45 +2607,25 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct
>>> file *filp,
>>> ret = iter->trace->splice_read(iter, filp,
>>> ppos, pipe, len, flags);
>>> if (ret)
>>> - goto out;
>>> + goto out_err;
>>> }
>>> ret = tracing_wait_pipe(filp);
>>> if (ret <= 0)
>>> - goto out;
>>> + goto out_err;
>>> if (!iter->ent && !find_next_entry_inc(iter)) {
>>> ret = -EFAULT;
>>> - goto out;
>>> + goto out_err;
>>> }
>>> /* Fill as many pages as possible. */
>>> for (i = 0, rem = len; i < PIPE_BUFFERS && rem; i++) {
>>> pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
>>> + if (!pages[i])
>>> + break;
>> I believe you should decrement 'i' before breaking, since we fill
>> spd.nr_pages just after the loop. In case the current page couldn't be
>> allocated, spd.nr_pages will be one too many (that is, 'i').
>
> But, but, if we fail for i == 1, for example, we want ->nr_pages == 1, no?
>
> Pekka

Sure, my bad. I even made the same assumption myself about the outer
'for' loop when I wrote it ('i' would end up last page + 1). The patch is
okay. :-)


Eduard

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