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Message-ID: <20201001174256.GV739899@swahl-home.5wahls.com> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 12:42:56 -0500 From: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@....com> To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org> Cc: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@....com>, Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@....com>, Russ Anderson <russ.anderson@....com>, Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>, Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2][next] x86/uv/time: Replace one-element array and save heap space On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:56:08AM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having > a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code > should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older > style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2]. I see this has already gone in, so I'm late. But for whatever it's worth, it's a good change. Thank you. Reviewed-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@....com> --> Steve wahl > struct uv_rtc_timer_head contains a one-element array cpu[1]. > > Switch it to a flexible array and use the struct_size() helper to > calculate the allocation size. Also, save some heap space in the > process[3]. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member > [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9-rc1/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200518190114.GA7757@embeddedor/ > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> > Build-tested-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5f75bc0a.rQcNS6620b2eA74S%25lkp@intel.com/ > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org> > --- > Changes in v2: > - Modify changelog text (Thomas). > - Add Reviewed-by and Build-tested-by tags. > - Add a public link to the build-test results. > > arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c | 7 +++---- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c > index f82a1337a608..6c348c2d0def 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_time.c > @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ struct uv_rtc_timer_head { > struct { > int lcpu; /* systemwide logical cpu number */ > u64 expires; /* next timer expiration for this cpu */ > - } cpu[1]; > + } cpu[]; > }; > > /* > @@ -148,9 +148,8 @@ static __init int uv_rtc_allocate_timers(void) > struct uv_rtc_timer_head *head = blade_info[bid]; > > if (!head) { > - head = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct uv_rtc_timer_head) + > - (uv_blade_nr_possible_cpus(bid) * > - 2 * sizeof(u64)), > + head = kmalloc_node(struct_size(head, cpu, > + uv_blade_nr_possible_cpus(bid)), > GFP_KERNEL, nid); > if (!head) { > uv_rtc_deallocate_timers(); > -- > 2.27.0 >
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