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SubjectRe: [RFC 2/4] nbd: Split 'DO_IT' into three functions
Hi Paul,

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:16:12AM -0500, Paul Clements wrote:
> Markus,
>
> This refactor looks OK with the exception of one thing...
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> > /* Must be called with tx_lock held */
> >
> > static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,
> > @@ -684,61 +773,8 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,
> > set_capacity(nbd->disk, nbd->bytesize >> 9);
> > return 0;
> >
> > - case NBD_DO_IT: {
> > - struct task_struct *thread;
> > - struct socket *sock;
> > - int error;
> > -
> > - if (nbd->pid)
> > - return -EBUSY;
> > - if (!nbd->sock)
> > - return -EINVAL;
> >
>
> You seem to have done away with these checks. Was that inadvertent or
> was there a reason for that? The pid check is necessary to prevent two
> instances of NBD_DO_IT from running. Without the sock check you'll get
> a null pointer deref in nbd_do_it.

Thanks, no there is no reason, it got dropped somewhere. These checks
should defenitely be there. Will fix it for the next version.

I also fixed a lot of error handling, style, format and documentation in
the other patches. Will send the patch series soon, but thanks for the
review so far.

Best regards,

Markus

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