Small optimization for nfs3acl. (was: Re: [PATCH] NFS: nfsaclsvc_encode_getaclres() - Fix potential NULL deref and tiny optimization.)

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On Tuesday 31 October 2006 17:26, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 00:01, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > > 3) There are two locations in the function where we may return before
> > > > we use the value of the variable 'w', but we compute it at the very top
> > > > of the function. So in the case where we return early we have wasted a
> > > > few cycles computing a value that was never used.
> 
> Computing w later in the function is fine.
> 
...
> 
> Please fix this identically in fs/nfsd/nfs2acl.c and fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c.
> 

Here's a patch for nfs3. Hope it's OK.


Saves a few bytes of .text and avoids calculating 'w' in 
nfs3svc_encode_getaclres() in case we return before it's needed.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   1688     132       0    1820     71c fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.o


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
---

 fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c
index fcad289..eb1cf22 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c
@@ -171,11 +171,9 @@ static int nfs3svc_encode_getaclres(stru
 	p = nfs3svc_encode_post_op_attr(rqstp, p, &resp->fh);
 	if (resp->status == 0 && dentry && dentry->d_inode) {
 		struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
-		int w = nfsacl_size(
-			(resp->mask & NFS_ACL)   ? resp->acl_access  : NULL,
-			(resp->mask & NFS_DFACL) ? resp->acl_default : NULL);
 		struct kvec *head = rqstp->rq_res.head;
 		unsigned int base;
+		int w;
 		int n;
 
 		*p++ = htonl(resp->mask);
@@ -183,6 +181,9 @@ static int nfs3svc_encode_getaclres(stru
 			return 0;
 		base = (char *)p - (char *)head->iov_base;
 
+		w = nfsacl_size(
+			(resp->mask & NFS_ACL)   ? resp->acl_access  : NULL,
+			(resp->mask & NFS_DFACL) ? resp->acl_default : NULL);
 		rqstp->rq_res.page_len = w;
 		while (w > 0) {
 			if (!rqstp->rq_respages[rqstp->rq_resused++])



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