From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/23] initramfs: switch initramfs unpacking to struct file based APIs
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:31:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whDbHL7x5Jx-CSz97=nVg4V_q45DsokX+X-Y-yZV4rPvw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200714190427.4332-18-hch@lst.de>
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:09 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> There is no good reason to mess with file descriptors from in-kernel
> code, switch the initramfs unpacking to struct file based write
> instead.
Looking at this diff, I realized this really should be cleaned up more.
+ wfile = filp_open(collected, openflags, mode);
> + if (IS_ERR(wfile))
> + return 0;
> +
> + vfs_fchown(wfile, uid, gid);
> + vfs_fchmod(wfile, mode);
> + if (body_len)
> + vfs_truncate(&wfile->f_path, body_len);
> + vcollected = kstrdup(collected, GFP_KERNEL);
That "vcollected" is ugly and broken, and seems oh-so-wrong.
Because it's only use is:
> - ksys_close(wfd);
> + fput(wfile);
> do_utime(vcollected, mtime);
> kfree(vcollected);
which should just have done the exact same thing that you did with
vfs_chown() and friends: we already have a "utimes_common()" that
takes a path, and it could have been made into "vfs_utimes()", and
then this whole vcollected confusion would go away and be replaced by
vfs_truncate(&wfile->f_path, mtime);
(ok, with all the "timespec64 t[2]" things going on that do_utime()
does now, but you get the idea).
Talk about de-crufting that initramfs unpacking..
But I don't hate this patch, I'm just pointing out that there's room
for improvement.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-14 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-14 19:04 decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 01/23] fs: add a vfs_fchown helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 02/23] fs: add a vfs_fchmod helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 03/23] init: remove the bstat helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-15 23:14 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 04/23] md: move the early init autodetect code to drivers/md/ Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 05/23] md: replace the RAID_AUTORUN ioctl with a direct function call Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-15 23:33 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 06/23] md: remove the autoscan partition re-read Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-15 23:34 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 07/23] md: remove the kernel version of md_u.h Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 08/23] md: simplify md_setup_drive Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-15 23:37 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 09/23] md: rewrite md_setup_drive to avoid ioctls Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-15 23:50 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-16 13:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 10/23] initrd: remove support for multiple floppies Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 11/23] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 12/23] initrd: switch initrd loading to struct file based APIs Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 1:50 ` Al Viro
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 13/23] initrd: mark init_linuxrc as __init Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 14/23] initrd: mark initrd support as deprecated Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 15/23] initramfs: remove the populate_initrd_image and clean_rootfs stubs Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 16/23] initramfs: simplify clean_rootfs Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20200717205549eucas1p13fca9a8496836faa71df515524743648@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-07-17 20:55 ` Marek Szyprowski
2020-07-18 10:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 9:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 14:25 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-07-23 14:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 2:41 ` Al Viro
2020-07-27 2:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 17/23] initramfs: switch initramfs unpacking to struct file based APIs Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-07-15 6:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 2:55 ` Al Viro
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 18/23] init: open code setting up stdin/stdout/stderr Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 3:05 ` Al Viro
2020-07-27 5:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 6:03 ` Al Viro
2020-07-27 6:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 15:54 ` Al Viro
2020-07-27 15:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 6:20 ` hpa
2020-07-27 6:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 6:36 ` hpa
2020-07-27 6:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 19/23] fs: remove ksys_getdents64 Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 20/23] fs: remove ksys_open Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 21/23] fs: remove ksys_dup Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 22/23] fs: remove ksys_fchmod Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 23/23] fs: remove ksys_ioctl Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:34 ` decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2 Linus Torvalds
2020-07-15 6:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-16 15:57 ` Guoqing Jiang
2020-07-16 16:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
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