SUNRPC: Document validity guarantees of the pointer returned by reserve_space
A subtlety of this API is that if the @nbytes region traverses a page boundary, the next __xdr_commit_encode will shift the data item in the XDR encode buffer. This makes the returned pointer point to something else, leading to unexpected behavior. There are a few cases where the caller saves the returned pointer and then later uses it to insert a computed value into an earlier part of the stream. This can be safe only if either: - the data item is guaranteed to be in the XDR buffer's head, and thus is not ever going to be near a page boundary, or - the data item is no larger than 4 octets, since XDR alignment rules require all data items to start on 4-octet boundaries But that safety is only an artifact of the current implementation. It would be less brittle if these "safe" uses were eventually replaced. Reviewed-by:NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by:
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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