Hi Coly,
As Rolf and I said, the value of preceding_key_p in the stack cannot be set to
NULL by your code.
The modified patch hereafter does what you expect (I think).
Regards,
drivers/md/bcache/bset.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
drivers/md/bcache/bset.h | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------
2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/bset.c b/drivers/md/bcache/bset.c
index 8f07fa6e1739..9422f3f1c682 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/bset.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/bset.c
@@ -887,12 +887,22 @@ unsigned int bch_btree_insert_key(struct btree_keys *b,
struct bkey *k,
struct bset *i = bset_tree_last(b)->data;
struct bkey *m, *prev = NULL;
struct btree_iter iter;
+ struct bkey preceding_key_on_stack = ZERO_KEY;
+ struct bkey *preceding_key_p = &preceding_key_on_stack;
BUG_ON(b->ops->is_extents && !KEY_SIZE(k));
- m = bch_btree_iter_init(b, &iter, b->ops->is_extents
- ? PRECEDING_KEY(&START_KEY(k))
- : PRECEDING_KEY(k));
+ /*
+ * If k has preceding key, preceding_key_p will be set to address
+ * of k's preceding key; otherwise preceding_key_p will be set
+ * to NULL inside preceding_key().
+ */
+ if (b->ops->is_extents)
+ preceding_key_p = preceding_key(&START_KEY(k), preceding_key_p);
+ else
+ preceding_key_p = preceding_key(k, preceding_key_p);
+
+ m = bch_btree_iter_init(b, &iter, preceding_key_p);
if (b->ops->insert_fixup(b, k, &iter, replace_key))
return status;
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/bset.h b/drivers/md/bcache/bset.h
index bac76aabca6d..6ab165dcb717 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/bset.h
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/bset.h
@@ -434,20 +434,26 @@ static inline bool bch_cut_back(const struct bkey *where,
struct bkey *k)
return __bch_cut_back(where, k);
}
-#define PRECEDING_KEY(_k) \
-({ \
- struct bkey *_ret = NULL; \
- \
- if (KEY_INODE(_k) || KEY_OFFSET(_k)) { \
- _ret = &KEY(KEY_INODE(_k), KEY_OFFSET(_k), 0); \
- \
- if (!_ret->low) \
- _ret->high--; \
- _ret->low--; \
- } \
- \
- _ret; \
-})
+/*
+ * Pointer preceding_key_p points to a memory object to store preceding
+ * key of k. If the preceding key does not exist, set preceding_key_p to
+ * NULL. So the caller of preceding_key() needs to take care of memory
+ * which preceding_key_p pointed to before calling preceding_key().
+ * Currently the only caller of preceding_key() is bch_btree_insert_key(),
+ * and preceding_key_p points to an on-stack variable, so the memory
+ * release is handled by stackframe itself.
+ */
+static inline struct bkey *preceding_key(struct bkey *k, struct bkey
*preceding_key_p)
+{
+ if (KEY_INODE(k) || KEY_OFFSET(k)) {
+ *preceding_key_p = KEY(KEY_INODE(k), KEY_OFFSET(k), 0);
+ if (!preceding_key_p->low)
+ preceding_key_p->high--;
+ preceding_key_p->low--;
+ return (preceding_key_p);
+ } else {
+ return(NULL);
+ }
+}
static inline bool bch_ptr_invalid(struct btree_keys *b, const struct bkey *k)
{
