sunrpc: Remove backchannel check in svc_init_buffer()
The server's backchannel uses struct svc_rqst, but does not use the pages in svc_rqst::rq_pages. It's rq_arg::pages and rq_res::pages comes from the RPC client's page allocator. Currently, svc_init_buffer() skips allocating pages in rq_pages for that reason. Except that, svc_rqst::rq_pages is filled anyway when a backchannel svc_rqst is passed to svc_recv() -> and then to svc_alloc_arg(). This isn't really a problem at the moment, except that these pages are allocated but then never used, as far as I can tell. The problem is that later in this series, in addition to populating the entries of rq_pages[], svc_init_buffer() will also allocate the memory underlying the rq_pages[] array itself. If that allocation is skipped, then svc_alloc_args() chases a NULL pointer for ingress backchannel requests. This approach avoids introducing extra conditional logic in svc_alloc_args(), which is a hot path. Acked-by:Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by:
NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Reviewed-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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