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Commit 1a587912 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever
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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: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
parent eff042dd
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