Re: [PATCH 6/13: eCryptfs] Superblock operations

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On 5/4/06, Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Phillip,

Some comments below.

On 5/4/06, Phillip Hellewell <[email protected]> wrote:
> +kmem_cache_t *ecryptfs_inode_info_cache;

Please use struct kmem_cache instead of the typedef.

Please explain why. Looking at the source shows that kmem_cache_t is
more widely used, and therefore seems to be the prefered way.

> +       ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "Exit\n");
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * Set up the ecryptfs inode.
> + */
> +static void ecryptfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode)
> +{
> +       ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "Enter; inode = [%p]\n", inode);
> +       /* This is where we setup the self-reference in the vfs_inode's
> +        * u.generic_ip. That way we don't have to walk the list again. */
> +       ECRYPTFS_INODE_TO_PRIVATE_SM(inode) =
> +               list_entry(inode, struct ecryptfs_inode_info, vfs_inode);
> +       ECRYPTFS_INODE_TO_LOWER(inode) = NULL;

Hmm, ugly, please make the setters explicit instead.

Curious, what exactly do you mean by this? I'm not sure what you mean
by "setters".

--
Michael C. Thompson <[email protected]>
Software-Engineer, IBM LTC Security
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