On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 09:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:00:48 +0530 Kalpak Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > > - if (inode->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX)
> > > > + if (EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(inode))
> > > > return -EMLINK;
> > >
> > > argh. WHY_IS_EXT4_FULL_OF_UPPER_CASE_MACROS_WHICH_COULD_BE_IMPLEMENTED
> > > as_lower_case_inlines? Sigh. It's all the old-timers, I guess.
> > >
> > > EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX() is buggy: it evaluates its arg twice.
> >
> > #define EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(dir) (!is_dx(dir) && (dir)->i_nlink >=
> > EXT4_LINK_MAX)
> >
> > This just checks if directory has hash indexing in which case we need not
> > worry about EXT4_LINK_MAX subdir limit. If directory is not hash indexed
> > then we will need to enforce a max subdir limit.
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't understand what is the problem with this macro?
>
> Macros should never evaluate their argument more than once, because if they
> do they will misbehave when someone passes them an
> expression-with-side-effects:
>
> struct inode *p = q;
>
> EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(p++);
>
> one expects `p' to have the value q+1 here. But it might be q+2.
>
> and
>
> EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(some_function());
>
> might cause some_function() to be called twice.
>
>
> This is one of the many problems which gets fixed when we write code in C
> rather than in cpp.
Thanks. Here is the fix converting these macros into inlined functions.
----
The EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(dir) and EXT4_DIR_LINK_EMPTY(dir) macros were
evaluating their argument twice so convert them into inlined functions.
Signed-off-by: Kalpak Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.22/fs/ext4/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ linux-2.6.22/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1742,7 +1742,7 @@ static int ext4_mkdir(struct inode * dir
struct ext4_dir_entry_2 * de;
int err, retries = 0;
- if (EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(dir))
+ if (ext4_dir_link_max(dir))
return -EMLINK;
retry:
@@ -2062,7 +2062,7 @@ static int ext4_rmdir (struct inode * di
retval = ext4_delete_entry(handle, dir, de, bh);
if (retval)
goto end_rmdir;
- if (!EXT4_DIR_LINK_EMPTY(inode))
+ if (!ext4_dir_link_empty(inode))
ext4_warning (inode->i_sb, "ext4_rmdir",
"empty directory has too many links (%d)",
inode->i_nlink);
@@ -2201,7 +2201,7 @@ static int ext4_link (struct dentry * ol
struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
int err, retries = 0;
- if (EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(inode))
+ if (ext4_dir_link_max(inode))
return -EMLINK;
/*
Index: linux-2.6.22/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
+++ linux-2.6.22/include/linux/ext4_fs.h
@@ -797,12 +797,18 @@ struct ext4_dir_entry_2 {
#define is_dx(dir) (EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(dir->i_sb, \
EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX) &&
\
(EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT4_INDEX_FL))
-#define EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(dir) (!is_dx(dir) && (dir)->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX)
-#define EXT4_DIR_LINK_EMPTY(dir) ((dir)->i_nlink == 2 || (dir)->i_nlink == 1)
+static inline int ext4_dir_link_max(struct inode *dir)
+{
+ return (!is_dx(dir) && (dir)->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX);
+}
+static inline int ext4_dir_link_empty(struct inode *dir)
+{
+ return ((dir)->i_nlink == 2 || (dir)->i_nlink == 1);
+}
#else
#define is_dx(dir) 0
-#define EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(dir) ((dir)->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX)
-#define EXT4_DIR_LINK_EMPTY(dir) ((dir)->i_nlink == 2)
+#define ext4_dir_link_max(dir) ((dir)->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX)
+#define ext4_dir_link_empty(dir) ((dir)->i_nlink == 2)
#endif
/* Legal values for the dx_root hash_version field: */
-
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