[sheepdog]   [PATCH v1] sheep: replace valloc with xvalloc

Bingpeng Zhu nkuzbp at foxmail.com
Thu Sep 11 05:02:57 CEST 2014


I see.
Thanks!




------------------ Original ------------------
From:  "Hitoshi Mitake";<mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp>;
Date:  Thu, Sep 11, 2014 10:28 AM
To:  "Bingpeng Zhu"<nkuzbp at foxmail.com>; 
Cc:  "sheepdog"<sheepdog at lists.wpkg.org>; "Bingpeng Zhu"<bingpeng.zbp at alibaba-inc.com>; 
Subject:  Re: [sheepdog] [PATCH v1] sheep: replace valloc with xvalloc



At Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:52:10 +0800,
Bingpeng Zhu wrote:
> 
> xvalloc is the wrapper function of valloc in lib/util.
> We should use xvalloc instead of valloc in our code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bingpeng Zhu <bingpeng.zbp at alibaba-inc.com>
> ---
>  sheep/plain_store.c |    4 +---
>  sheep/request.c     |    6 +-----
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

xvalloc() can call panic() when it fails to allocate memory so I think
the below changes are too agressive. e.g. sheep can panic() when it
receives GET_HASH request from dog. In most cases like this, returning
SD_RES_NO_MEM is suitable than calling panic().

Thanks,
Hitoshi

> 
> diff --git a/sheep/plain_store.c b/sheep/plain_store.c
> index 876582c..7ab0699 100644
> --- a/sheep/plain_store.c
> +++ b/sheep/plain_store.c
> @@ -691,9 +691,7 @@ int default_get_hash(uint64_t oid, uint32_t epoch, uint8_t *sha1)
>  	}
>  
>  	length = get_store_objsize(oid);
> -	buf = valloc(length);
> -	if (buf == NULL)
> -		return SD_RES_NO_MEM;
> +	buf = xvalloc(length);
>  
>  	iocb.epoch = epoch;
>  	iocb.buf = buf;
> diff --git a/sheep/request.c b/sheep/request.c
> index 8a2e7dc..bc10b90 100644
> --- a/sheep/request.c
> +++ b/sheep/request.c
> @@ -690,11 +690,7 @@ static struct request *alloc_request(struct client_info *ci, int data_length)
>  
>  	if (data_length) {
>  		req->data_length = data_length;
> -		req->data = valloc(data_length);
> -		if (!req->data) {
> -			free(req);
> -			return NULL;
> -		}
> +		req->data = xvalloc(data_length);
>  	}
>  
>  	req->ci = ci;
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
> 
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