Re: [PATCH 10/20] ext4: get rid of ppath in ext4_ext_create_new_leaf()

From: Baokun Li
Date: Sat Jul 27 2024 - 02:35:37 EST


On 2024/7/25 18:46, Jan Kara wrote:
On Wed 10-07-24 12:06:44, libaokun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>

The use of path and ppath is now very confusing, so to make the code more
readable, pass path between functions uniformly, and get rid of ppath.

To get rid of the ppath in ext4_ext_create_new_leaf(), the following is
done here:

* Free the extents path when an error is encountered.
* Its caller needs to update ppath if it uses ppath.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Just one nit below. Otherwise feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

@@ -1424,28 +1423,24 @@ static int ext4_ext_create_new_leaf(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
* entry: create all needed subtree and add new leaf */
err = ext4_ext_split(handle, inode, mb_flags, path, newext, i);
if (err)
- goto out;
+ goto errout;
/* refill path */
path = ext4_find_extent(inode,
(ext4_lblk_t)le32_to_cpu(newext->ee_block),
path, gb_flags);
- if (IS_ERR(path))
- err = PTR_ERR(path);
So I'd rather have here:
return path;

That way it's obvious we will not confuse some code below with error stored
in 'path' and we can also save one indentation level by removing 'else'
below (probably do reindenting in a separate patch).

Honza
Yes, that looks clearer! I'll add 'return path' in the next version, and
add a cleanup patch after this one to save indentation.

Thanks,
Baokun
} else {
/* tree is full, time to grow in depth */
err = ext4_ext_grow_indepth(handle, inode, mb_flags);
if (err)
- goto out;
+ goto errout;
/* refill path */
path = ext4_find_extent(inode,
(ext4_lblk_t)le32_to_cpu(newext->ee_block),
path, gb_flags);
- if (IS_ERR(path)) {
- err = PTR_ERR(path);
- goto out;
- }
+ if (IS_ERR(path))
+ return path;
/*
* only first (depth 0 -> 1) produces free space;
@@ -1457,9 +1452,11 @@ static int ext4_ext_create_new_leaf(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
goto repeat;
}
}
-out:
- *ppath = IS_ERR(path) ? NULL : path;
- return err;
+ return path;
+
+errout:
+ ext4_free_ext_path(path);
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
}
/*
@@ -2112,10 +2109,14 @@ int ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
*/
if (gb_flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_METADATA_NOFAIL)
mb_flags |= EXT4_MB_USE_RESERVED;
- err = ext4_ext_create_new_leaf(handle, inode, mb_flags, gb_flags,
- ppath, newext);
- if (err)
+ path = ext4_ext_create_new_leaf(handle, inode, mb_flags, gb_flags,
+ path, newext);
+ if (IS_ERR(path)) {
+ *ppath = NULL;
+ err = PTR_ERR(path);
goto cleanup;
+ }
+ *ppath = path;
depth = ext_depth(inode);
eh = path[depth].p_hdr;
--
2.39.2

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With Best Regards,
Baokun Li