linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] tty/vt: consolemap: use ARRAY

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Date:   Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:03:15 +0200
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] tty/vt: consolemap: use ARRAY_SIZE(), part II.

On 14. 06. 22, 10:17, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
>> The code still uses constants (macros) as bounds in loops after commit
>> 17945d317a52 (tty/vt: consolemap: use ARRAY_SIZE()). The contants are at
>> least macros used also in the definition of the arrays. But use
>> ARRAY_SIZE() on two more places to ensure the loops never run out of
>> bounds even if the array definition change.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
>> ---
>>   drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c b/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c
>> index fff97ae87e00..8aa7a48b3647 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c
>> @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static void set_inverse_transl(struct vc_data *conp, struct uni_pagedict *p,
>>   	}
>>   	memset(q, 0, MAX_GLYPH);
>>   
>> -	for (j = 0; j < E_TABSZ; j++) {
>> +	for (j = 0; j < ARRAY_SIZE(translations[i]); j++) {
> 
> Any particular reason why you left its definition to have 256 instead of
> E_TABSZ (even after the patch series I mean):
> 
> static unsigned short translations[][256] = {

I will. (Only if it wasn't so badly chosen name. And even exported to 
userspace.)

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs