From: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>,
Mariusz Tkaczyk <mariusz.tkaczyk@linux.intel.com>,
Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Linux regressions mailing list <regressions@lists.linux.dev>,
linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Nikolay Kichukov <hijacker@oldum.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH - mdadm] mdopen: always try create_named_array()
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 08:10:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALTww28X1NQecTY3Jbkz_wbHc_N7GOw3hJLEyb2YnxAmQ8PRFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <168012671413.8106.6812573281942242445@noble.neil.brown.name>
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 5:52 AM NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2023, NeilBrown wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Mar 2023, Xiao Ni wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Second, are there possibilities that the arguments "dev" and "name" of
> > > function create_mddev
> > > are null at the same time?
> >
> > No. For Build or Create, dev is never NULL. For Assemble and
> > Incremental, name is never NULL.
> >
>
> I should clarify this a bit. For Assemble and Incremental, "name" is
> never NULL *but* it might be an empty string.
> So:
> if (name && name[0] == 0)
> name = NULL;
>
> might cause it to become NULL. So you cannot assume there is always
> either a valid "dev" or a valid "name". "dev" might be NULL, and "name"
> might be "".
>
> NeilBrown
>
Hi Neil
The input argument name should be the metadata name. For incremental
and assemble, why are there possibilities that the metadata name is
invalid? A raid device should have a valid metadata name, right?
--
Best Regards
Xiao Ni
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-30 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-14 0:06 [PATCH - mdadm] mdopen: always try create_named_array() NeilBrown
2023-03-14 9:11 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2023-03-19 16:36 ` Jes Sorensen
2023-03-19 22:09 ` NeilBrown
2023-03-20 17:15 ` Jes Sorensen
2023-03-21 8:49 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2023-03-22 3:00 ` Xiao Ni
2023-03-22 3:24 ` NeilBrown
2023-03-22 6:51 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2023-03-23 2:09 ` Xiao Ni
2023-03-29 21:51 ` NeilBrown
2023-03-30 0:10 ` Xiao Ni [this message]
2023-03-30 3:15 ` NeilBrown
2023-03-30 4:55 ` Xiao Ni
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