Re: [PATCH 0/8] virtiofsd: Changed various allocations to GLib functions

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 03:47:03PM +0200, Mahmoud Mandour wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 3:25 PM Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Replaced allocations done using malloc(), calloc(), and realloc()
> > to their equivalent functions in GLib.
> >
> > Memory that is allocated locally and freed when the function exits
> > are annotated g_autofree so that the deallocation is automatically
> > handled. Subsequently, I could remove a bunch of free() calls.
> >
> > Also, tried to keep the semantics of the code as is, but when the
> > allocation is a small one, or a crucial one, I replaced the
> > NULL-checking mechanisms with glib's functions that crash on error.
> >
> > This is related to a patch that I had submitted as a part of a
> > previous series. The previous patch had some errors. Also, I thought
> > that it's better to split the patch into smaller pieces.
> >
> > The previous patch can be found here:
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/msg05153.html
> >
> > Mahmoud Mandour (8):
> >   virtiofsd: Changed allocations of fuse_req to GLib functions
> >   virtiofds: Changed allocations of iovec to GLib's functions
> >   virtiofsd: Changed fuse_pollhandle allocation to GLib's functions
> >   virtiofsd: Changed allocations of fuse_session to GLib's functions
> >   virtiofsd: Changed allocation of lo_map_elems to GLib's functions
> >   virtiofsd: Changed allocations of fv_VuDev & its internals to GLib
> >     functions
> >   virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c: Changed local allocations to GLib
> >     functions
> >   virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c: Changed allocations of locals to GLib
> >
> >  tools/virtiofsd/fuse_lowlevel.c  | 43 +++++++++++---------------------
> >  tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c    | 34 ++++++++-----------------
> >  tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 21 ++++++----------
> >  3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
> >
> Hello,
> For some reason, my get_maintainers script auto cc-filling did not work, so
> I had to manually cc
> you.
> Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks, will review tomorrow.

Stefan

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