Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Remove NULL checks from jffs2_destroy_slab_caches

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Thu Aug 06 2015 - 03:24:24 EST




On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Cc Julia Lawall
>
> On (08/04/15 13:06), Brian Norris wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Salah Triki wrote:
> > > kmem_cache_destroy can be called with NULL values. Thus, the checks that
> > > precede the calls are useless.
> >
> > This isn't *currently* true. Only after a bit of work did I find that
> > this is queued to change in the next release -- akpm has a patch:
> >
> > commit 3e54c0cd3abdca0cf91854278c8633fc7df6beb1
> > Author: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu Jul 30 09:55:36 2015 +1000
> >
> > mm/slab_common: allow NULL cache pointer in kmem_cache_destroy()
> >
> > Please provide the appropriate context next time. And for the moment, I will
> > not apply this, because this does not work on the current MTD development tree.
> > Try your patch bomb on the next release, as it's not worth my time to
> > cross-merge a -next branch just for a "cleanup".
> >
>
> Julia already has a patch set to cleanup all the existing users
> (not published yet, though).

We should probably have put our patches into a series. Because it is true
that the cleanup patch breaks existing code. So one has to be aware of
the dependency between them.

julia

>
> Apart from that, and this is more important, the patch in question
> looks to me as 100% copy paste of a patch by Julia Lawall.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/31
>
> And no, Salah, it's not "Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@xxxxxxx>".
>
> For the record, this is the second, let's say strange, patch from Salah
> that I see today.
>
> -ss
>
> > > Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > fs/jffs2/malloc.c | 27 +++++++++------------------
> > > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/jffs2/malloc.c b/fs/jffs2/malloc.c
> > > index b8fd651..ce11897 100644
> > > --- a/fs/jffs2/malloc.c
> > > +++ b/fs/jffs2/malloc.c
> > > @@ -97,25 +97,16 @@ int __init jffs2_create_slab_caches(void)
> > >
> > > void jffs2_destroy_slab_caches(void)
> > > {
> > > - if(full_dnode_slab)
> > > - kmem_cache_destroy(full_dnode_slab);
> > > - if(raw_dirent_slab)
> > > - kmem_cache_destroy(raw_dirent_slab);
> > > - if(raw_inode_slab)
> > > - kmem_cache_destroy(raw_inode_slab);
> > > - if(tmp_dnode_info_slab)
> > > - kmem_cache_destroy(tmp_dnode_info_slab);
> > > - if(raw_node_ref_slab)
> > > - kmem_cache_destroy(raw_node_ref_slab);
> > > - if(node_frag_slab)
> > > - kmem_cache_destroy(node_frag_slab);
> > > - if(inode_cache_slab)
> > > - kmem_cache_destroy(inode_cache_slab);
> > > + kmem_cache_destroy(full_dnode_slab);
> > > + kmem_cache_destroy(raw_dirent_slab);
> > > + kmem_cache_destroy(raw_inode_slab);
> > > + kmem_cache_destroy(tmp_dnode_info_slab);
> > > + kmem_cache_destroy(raw_node_ref_slab);
> > > + kmem_cache_destroy(node_frag_slab);
> > > + kmem_cache_destroy(inode_cache_slab);
> > > #ifdef CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_XATTR
> > > - if (xattr_datum_cache)
> > > - kmem_cache_destroy(xattr_datum_cache);
> > > - if (xattr_ref_cache)
> > > - kmem_cache_destroy(xattr_ref_cache);
> > > + kmem_cache_destroy(xattr_datum_cache);
> > > + kmem_cache_destroy(xattr_ref_cache);
> > > #endif
> > > }
> > >
> > > --
> > > 1.9.1
> > >
> > >
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> >
>
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