Re: [PATCH v2] isofs compress: Remove VLA usage

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 11:17 -0700, Kyle Spiers wrote:
> As part of the effort to remove VLAs from the kernel[1], this changes
> the allocation of the bhs and pages arrays from being on the stack to being
> kcalloc()ed. This also allows for the removal of the explicit zeroing
> of bhs.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyle Spiers <ksspiers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/isofs/compress.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/isofs/compress.c b/fs/isofs/compress.c
> index 9bb2fe35799d..4eba16bf173c 100644
> --- a/fs/isofs/compress.c
> +++ b/fs/isofs/compress.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>  #include <linux/init.h>
>  #include <linux/bio.h>
>  
> +#include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>  #include <linux/zlib.h>
>  
> @@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ static loff_t zisofs_uncompress_block(struct inode *inode, loff_t block_start,
>  				>> bufshift;
>  	int haveblocks;
>  	blkcnt_t blocknum;
> -	struct buffer_head *bhs[needblocks + 1];
> +	struct buffer_head **bhs;
>  	int curbh, curpage;
>  
>  	if (block_size > deflateBound(1UL << zisofs_block_shift)) {
> @@ -80,7 +81,9 @@ static loff_t zisofs_uncompress_block(struct inode *inode, loff_t block_start,
>  
>  	/* Because zlib is not thread-safe, do all the I/O at the top. */
>  	blocknum = block_start >> bufshift;
> -	memset(bhs, 0, (needblocks + 1) * sizeof(struct buffer_head *));
> +	bhs = kcalloc(needblocks + 1, sizeof(*bhs), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!bhs)
> +		return -ENOMEM;

This direct return appears incorrect.

It seems it should be:

	if (!bhs) {
		*errp = -ENOMEM;
		return 0;
	}