Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs
To: None <source-changes@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/11/2006 17:57:36
In article <20060411172629.GF29748@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>,
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:01:06PM +0000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>>
>> Module Name: src
>> Committed By: bouyer
>> Date: Mon Apr 10 22:01:06 UTC 2006
>>
>> Modified Files:
>> src/sys/ufs/ffs: ffs_snapshot.c
>>
>> Log Message:
>> Revert previous; I mixed bpp and *bpp when reading ffs_balloc_ufs1().
>> ffs_balloc() will always allocate a new buffer or leave it as NULL,
>> so coverity is wrong here, we're not using a freed argument.
>
>Yes - it took me a dozen reads of that code to realise it was ok.
>Including looking at the pre-UBC version.
>I suspect the logic is too complicated :-)
Can't we simplify it a bit? It is a brain teaser...
christos