Re: [PATCH 0/8] virtiofsd: Changed various allocations to GLib functions

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:43:07AM +0200, Mahmoud Mandour wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 5:53 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 03:47:03PM +0200, Mahmoud Mandour wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 3:25 PM Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Replaced allocations done using malloc(), calloc(), and realloc()
> > > > to their equivalent functions in GLib.
> > > >
> > > > Memory that is allocated locally and freed when the function exits
> > > > are annotated g_autofree so that the deallocation is automatically
> > > > handled. Subsequently, I could remove a bunch of free() calls.
> > > >
> > > > Also, tried to keep the semantics of the code as is, but when the
> > > > allocation is a small one, or a crucial one, I replaced the
> > > > NULL-checking mechanisms with glib's functions that crash on error.
> > > >
> > > > This is related to a patch that I had submitted as a part of a
> > > > previous series. The previous patch had some errors. Also, I thought
> > > > that it's better to split the patch into smaller pieces.
> > > >
> > > > The previous patch can be found here:
> > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/msg05153.html
> > > >
> > > > Mahmoud Mandour (8):
> > > >   virtiofsd: Changed allocations of fuse_req to GLib functions
> > > >   virtiofds: Changed allocations of iovec to GLib's functions
> > > >   virtiofsd: Changed fuse_pollhandle allocation to GLib's functions
> > > >   virtiofsd: Changed allocations of fuse_session to GLib's functions
> > > >   virtiofsd: Changed allocation of lo_map_elems to GLib's functions
> > > >   virtiofsd: Changed allocations of fv_VuDev & its internals to GLib
> > > >     functions
> > > >   virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c: Changed local allocations to GLib
> > > >     functions
> > > >   virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c: Changed allocations of locals to GLib
> > > >
> > > >  tools/virtiofsd/fuse_lowlevel.c  | 43 +++++++++++---------------------
> > > >  tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c    | 34 ++++++++-----------------
> > > >  tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 21 ++++++----------
> > > >  3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > 2.25.1
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Hello,
> > > For some reason, my get_maintainers script auto cc-filling did not work,
> > so
> > > I had to manually cc
> > > you.
> > > Sorry for the inconvenience.
> >
> > Thanks, will review tomorrow.
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> 
> Hello
> 
> I wanted to ask whether I need to resend the patch series with updates
> utilizing
> the feedback I got? There are patches that are overall superfluous, and
> others are
> "reviewed". Should I resend an updated series with only the patches
> reviewed?

That would be great. Thanks!

Stefan

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