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Message-ID: <63078523-8a57-36f4-228b-1594f0e3b025@embeddedor.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:36:51 -0500
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4][next] xfs: Replace one-element arrays with
flexible-array members
On 4/12/21 10:29, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Below are the results of running xfstests for "all" with the following
>> configuration in local.config:
>
> ...
>
>> Other tests might need to be run in order to verify everything is working
>> as expected. For such tests, the intervention of the maintainers might be
>> needed.
>
> This is a little weird for a commit log. If you want to show results
> this would be something that goes into a cover letter.
>
>> +/*
>> + * Calculates the size of structure xfs_efi_log_format followed by an
>> + * array of n number of efi_extents elements.
>> + */
>> +static inline size_t
>> +sizeof_efi_log_format(size_t n)
>> +{
>> + return struct_size((struct xfs_efi_log_format *)0, efi_extents, n);
>
> These helpers are completely silly. Just keep the existing open code
> version using sizeof with the one-off removed.
This was proposed by Darrick[1]. However, I'm curious, why do you think
they are "completely silly"?
>
>> - (sizeof(struct xfs_efd_log_item) +
>> - (XFS_EFD_MAX_FAST_EXTENTS - 1) *
>> - sizeof(struct xfs_extent)),
>> - 0, 0, NULL);
>> + struct_size((struct xfs_efd_log_item *)0,
>> + efd_format.efd_extents,
>> + XFS_EFD_MAX_FAST_EXTENTS),
>> + 0, 0, NULL);
>> if (!xfs_efd_zone)
>> goto out_destroy_buf_item_zone;
>>
>> xfs_efi_zone = kmem_cache_create("xfs_efi_item",
>> - (sizeof(struct xfs_efi_log_item) +
>> - (XFS_EFI_MAX_FAST_EXTENTS - 1) *
>> - sizeof(struct xfs_extent)),
>> + struct_size((struct xfs_efi_log_item *)0,
>> + efi_format.efi_extents,
>> + XFS_EFI_MAX_FAST_EXTENTS),
>
> Same here. And this obsfucated version also adds completely pointless
> overly long lines while making the code unreadable.
This could actually use one of the inline helpers you think are silly. :)
Thanks
--
Gustavo
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210311031745.GT3419940@magnolia/
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