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Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 23:05:17 +0200
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Phil Reid <preid@...ctromag.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv8] gpio: Remove VLA from gpiolib
Hi Andy,
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:07 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:53 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
>> The new challenge is to remove VLAs from the kernel
>> (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621) to eventually
>> turn on -Wvla.
>>
>> Using a kmalloc array is the easy way to fix this but kmalloc is still
>> more expensive than stack allocation. Introduce a fast path with a
>> fixed size stack array to cover most chip with gpios below some fixed
>> amount. The slow path dynamically allocates an array to cover those
>> chips with a large number of gpios.
>
>> + unsigned long fastpath[2 * BITS_TO_LONGS(FASTPATH_NGPIO)];
>> + unsigned long *mask, *bits;
>> int first, j, ret;
>>
>> + if (likely(chip->ngpio <= FASTPATH_NGPIO)) {
>> + mask = fastpath;
>> + } else {
>> + mask = kmalloc_array(2 * BITS_TO_LONGS(chip->ngpio),
>> + sizeof(*mask),
>> + can_sleep ? GFP_KERNEL : GFP_ATOMIC);
>> + if (!mask)
>> + return -ENOMEM;
>> + }
>> +
>> + bits = mask + BITS_TO_LONGS(chip->ngpio);
>> + memset(mask, 0, BITS_TO_LONGS(chip->ngpio) * sizeof(*mask));
>
> Wouldn't be better
>
> bitmap_zero(mask, chip->ngpio);
>
> ?
chip->ngpio is never const, so bitmap_zero() would always fall back to
plain memset().
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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