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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 V2] xfs: gut error handling in xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb()
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 07:55:30 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200520215530.GZ2040@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200520202702.GA17627@magnolia>

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:27:02PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:48:05AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 05:33:58PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Debug checks outside of the spinlock so they don't lock up the
> > > +	 * machine if they fail.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	ASSERT(mp->m_sb.sb_frextents >= 0);
> > > +	ASSERT(mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks >= 0);
> > > +	ASSERT(mp->m_sb.sb_agcount >= 0);
> > > +	ASSERT(mp->m_sb.sb_imax_pct >= 0);
> > > +	ASSERT(mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize >= 0);
> > > +	ASSERT(mp->m_sb.sb_rbmblocks >= 0);
> > > +	ASSERT(mp->m_sb.sb_rblocks >= 0);
> > > +	ASSERT(mp->m_sb.sb_rextents >= 0);
> > > +	ASSERT(mp->m_sb.sb_rextslog >= 0);
> 
> Except for imax_pct and rextslog, all of these are unsigned quantities,
> right?  So the asserts will /never/ trigger?

In truth, I didn't look that far. I just assumed that because all
the xfs_sb_mod*() functions used signed math that they could all
underflow/overflow.  IOWs, the checking for overflow/underflow was
completely wrong in the first place.

Should I just remove the ASSERT()s entirely?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-20 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19 21:48 [PATCH 0/2] xfs: fix unecessary percpu counter overhead Dave Chinner
2020-05-19 21:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: gut error handling in xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb() Dave Chinner
2020-05-20  6:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20  7:03     ` Dave Chinner
2020-05-20  7:33   ` [PATCH 1/2 V2] " Dave Chinner
2020-05-20  7:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20 20:27       ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-05-20 21:55         ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2020-05-20 22:28           ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-05-20 22:37             ` Dave Chinner
2020-05-19 21:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: reduce free inode accounting overhead Dave Chinner
2020-05-20  6:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20 20:43   ` Darrick J. Wong

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