Re: [PATCH rdma-next v3 2/3] lib/scatterlist: Fix wrong update of orig_nents

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 04:45:45PM +0300, Maor Gottlieb wrote:
> 
> On 8/23/2021 3:45 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 02:09:37PM +0300, Maor Gottlieb wrote:
> > > On 8/20/2021 6:54 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:39:12PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > +/**
> > > > > + * __sg_free_table - Free a previously mapped sg table
> > > > > + * @table:	The sg table header to use
> > > > > + * @max_ents:	The maximum number of entries per single scatterlist
> > > > > + * @total_ents:	The total number of entries in the table
> > > > > + * @nents_first_chunk: Number of entries int the (preallocated) first
> > > > > + *                     scatterlist chunk, 0 means no such preallocated
> > > > > + *                     first chunk
> > > > > + * @free_fn:	Free function
> > > > > + *
> > > > > + *  Description:
> > > > > + *    Free an sg table previously allocated and setup with
> > > > > + *    __sg_alloc_table().  The @max_ents value must be identical to
> > > > > + *    that previously used with __sg_alloc_table().
> > > > > + *
> > > > > + **/
> > > > > +void __sg_free_table(struct sg_table *table, unsigned int max_ents,
> > > > > +		     unsigned int nents_first_chunk, sg_free_fn *free_fn)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > +	sg_free_table_entries(table, max_ents, nents_first_chunk, free_fn,
> > > > > +			      table->orig_nents);
> > > > > +}
> > > > >    EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sg_free_table);
> > > > This is getting a bit indirect, there is only one caller of
> > > > __sg_free_table() in sg_pool.c, so may as well just export
> > > > sg_free_table_entries have have it use that directly.
> > > So I can just extend __sg_free_table to get number of entries. What do you
> > > think?
> > Isn't the point here that different paths to __sg_free_table require
> > different entries? What do you mean?
> 
> I mean that  __sg_free_table will get the number of entries. sg_pool will
> call it with table->orig_nents and sg_free_append_table will call it with
> with total_nents.

That is sort of what you've done, just renamed __sg_free_table to
sg_free_table_entries in the process, which seem fine enough

Jason