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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>, Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, weidu.du@huawei.com,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, Fang Wei <fangwei1@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: keep corrupted fs from crashing kernel in erofs_namei()
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:35:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190215093503.GH2326@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb99bac2-2587-04fa-6ac2-f2e5f83af7c9@huawei.com>

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 05:32:33PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2019/2/15 15:57, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 03:02:25PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> >> On 2019/2/1 20:16, Gao Xiang wrote:
> >>> +	/*
> >>> +	 * on-disk error, let's only BUG_ON in the debugging mode.
> >>> +	 * otherwise, it will return 1 to just skip the invalid name
> >>> +	 * and go on (in consideration of the lookup performance).
> >>> +	 */
> >>> +	DBG_BUGON(qd->name > qd->end);
> >>
> >> qd->name == qd->end is not allowed as well?
> >>
> >> So will it be better to return directly here?
> >>
> >> 	if (unlikely(qd->name >= qd->end)) {
> >> 		DBG_BUGON(1);
> >> 		return 1;
> >> 	}
> > 
> > Please don't add likely/unlikely() annotations unless you have
> > benchmarked it and it makes a difference.
> 
> Well, it only occur for corrupted image, since the image is readonly, so it
> is really rare.

The likely/unlikely() annotations make the code harder to read.  It's
only worth it if it's is a speedup on a fast path.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-15  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-01 12:16 [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: keep corrupted fs from crashing kernel in erofs_namei() Gao Xiang
2019-02-12  5:05 ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-15  7:02 ` Chao Yu
2019-02-15  7:57   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-02-15  9:04     ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-15  9:32     ` Chao Yu
2019-02-15  9:35       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2019-02-15 10:33         ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-18  2:41         ` Chao Yu
2019-02-18  6:16           ` Dan Carpenter
2019-02-15  8:58   ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-18  1:39     ` Chao Yu
2019-02-18  2:17       ` Gao Xiang
2019-02-18  2:50         ` Chao Yu

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