Lennart reminded me in [1] that we need to add assert() in functions
that do pointer access. For the simple `*p` pointer dereferences
we even have an automatic coccinelle script that ensures that as
part of the automatic code checks.
However for deref in the `p->` style this is not supported right
now and adding it to coccinelle is hard because its too slow for
this kind of check. So I created a (slightly messy) tree-sitter
python script to see how many asserts we are currently missing.
This commit is the result of running it over the `src/basic`
dir and fixing the flagged issues. I plan to tidy it up and
add it to the checks too but this is orthogonal to this commit.
[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/42360#discussion_r3426964562
Add the needed assert changes to make the code clean
for the new check-pointer-deref script.
Note that for `_cmp()` functions its a bit of a question
if we want `assert()` or `POINTER_MAY_BE_NULL()` here. The
former is more correct but it adds a (small) runtime hit. If
we use POINTER_MAY_BE_NULL() it is compiled out but strictly
speaking it is wrong (so at least we would need a comment).
Chasing symlinks is a core function that's used in a lot of places
so it deservers a less verbose names so let's rename it to chase()
and chaseat().
We also slightly change the pattern used for the chaseat() helpers
so we get chase_and_openat() and similar.
systemd-growfs currently requires that udev ran first to work (because
/dev/block/ symlinks must exist) but that is not what happens when
we're not using initrd and systemd is PID1.
No actual code changes, just splitting out of some dev_t handling
related calls from stat-util.[ch], they are quite a number already, and
deserve their own module now I think.
Also, try to settle on the name "devnum" as the name for the concept,
instead of "devno" or "dev" or "devid". "devnum" is the name exported in
udev APIs, hence probably best to stick to that. (this just renames a
few symbols to "devum", local variables are left untouched, to make the
patch not too invasive)
No actual code changes.
Michael Vogt
Daan De Meyer
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Lennart Poettering
Yu Watanabe
Devendra Tewari