Re: [PATCH 0/1] swsusp: fix breakage with swap on LVM

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Feb 16 2006 - 17:38:40 EST


On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:51, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:13, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > -rc3 version looks ok, and we probably want it in asap. -mm
> > version looks a bit long... --p
>
> That's because it adds a new function + comment.
>
> I think it's not a good idea to remake mm/swapfile.c:swap_type_of()
> in a -rc3-like fashion, because it is called by the userland interface for
> a different purpose and should not return non-error for the argument
> being zero.

Well, alternatively I can change the userland interface. :-)


Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/power/user.c | 13 +++++++++----
mm/swapfile.c | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1/mm/swapfile.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1.orig/mm/swapfile.c
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -428,14 +428,16 @@ int swap_type_of(dev_t device)
{
int i;

- if (!device)
- return -EINVAL;
spin_lock(&swap_lock);
for (i = 0; i < nr_swapfiles; i++) {
struct inode *inode;

if (!(swap_info[i].flags & SWP_WRITEOK))
continue;
+ if (!device) {
+ spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
+ return i;
+ }
inode = swap_info->swap_file->f_dentry->d_inode;
if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) &&
device == MKDEV(imajor(inode), iminor(inode))) {
Index: linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1/kernel/power/user.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1.orig/kernel/power/user.c
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc3-mm1/kernel/power/user.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static int snapshot_open(struct inode *i
filp->private_data = data;
memset(&data->handle, 0, sizeof(struct snapshot_handle));
if ((filp->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY) {
- data->swap = swap_type_of(swsusp_resume_device);
+ data->swap = swsusp_resume_device ? swap_type_of(swsusp_resume_device) : -1;
data->mode = O_RDONLY;
} else {
data->swap = -1;
@@ -252,9 +252,14 @@ static int snapshot_ioctl(struct inode *
* User space encodes device types as two-byte values,
* so we need to recode them
*/
- data->swap = swap_type_of(old_decode_dev(arg));
- if (data->swap < 0)
- error = -ENODEV;
+ if (old_decode_dev(arg)) {
+ data->swap = swap_type_of(old_decode_dev(arg));
+ if (data->swap < 0)
+ error = -ENODEV;
+ } else {
+ data->swap = -1;
+ error = -EINVAL;
+ }
} else {
error = -EPERM;
}
-
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