Re: [PATCH] exfat: optimize dir-cache

[Namjae Jeon]

2020-05-27 17:00 GMT+09:00,
Kohada.Tetsuhiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<Kohada.Tetsuhiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Thank you for your comment.
>
>  >> +    for (i = 0; i < es->num_bh; i++) {
>  >> +            if (es->modified)
>  >> +                    exfat_update_bh(es->sb, es->bh[i], sync);
>  >
>  > Overall, it looks good to me.
>  > However, if "sync" is set, it looks better to return the result of
> exfat_update_bh().
>  > Of course, a tiny modification for exfat_update_bh() is also required.
>
>  I thought the same, while creating this patch.
>  However this patch has changed a lot and I didn't add any new error
> checking.
>  (So, the same behavior will occur even if an error occurs)
>
>  >> +struct exfat_dentry *exfat_get_dentry_cached(
>  >> +    struct exfat_entry_set_cache *es, int num) {
>  >> +    int off = es->start_off + num * DENTRY_SIZE;
>  >> +    struct buffer_head *bh = es->bh[EXFAT_B_TO_BLK(off, es->sb)];
>  >> +    char *p = bh->b_data + EXFAT_BLK_OFFSET(off, es->sb);
>  >
>  > In order to prevent illegal accesses to bh and dentries, it would be
> better to check validation for num and bh.
>
>  There is no new error checking for same reason as above.
>
>  I'll try to add error checking to this v2 patch.
>  Or is it better to add error checking in another patch?
The latter:)
Thanks!
>
> BR
> ---
> Kohada Tetsuhiro <Kohada.Tetsuhiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>