Commit fadbfc38 authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva's avatar Gustavo A. R. Silva Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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hpilo: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

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].

For this particular case, it is important to notice that the cachelines
change from 7 to 6 after the flexible-array conversion:

$ pahole -C 'fifo' drivers/misc/hpilo.o
struct fifo {
	u64                        nrents;               /*     0     8 */
	u64                        imask;                /*     8     8 */
	u64                        merge;                /*    16     8 */
	u64                        reset;                /*    24     8 */
	u8                         pad_0[96];            /*    32    96 */
	/* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
	u64                        head;                 /*   128     8 */
	u8                         pad_1[120];           /*   136   120 */
	/* --- cacheline 4 boundary (256 bytes) --- */
	u64                        tail;                 /*   256     8 */
	u8                         pad_2[120];           /*   264   120 */
	/* --- cacheline 6 boundary (384 bytes) --- */
	u64                        fifobar[1];           /*   384     8 */

	/* size: 392, cachelines: 7, members: 10 */
	/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};

$ pahole -C 'fifo' drivers/misc/hpilo.o
struct fifo {
	u64                        nrents;               /*     0     8 */
	u64                        imask;                /*     8     8 */
	u64                        merge;                /*    16     8 */
	u64                        reset;                /*    24     8 */
	u8                         pad_0[96];            /*    32    96 */
	/* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
	u64                        head;                 /*   128     8 */
	u8                         pad_1[120];           /*   136   120 */
	/* --- cacheline 4 boundary (256 bytes) --- */
	u64                        tail;                 /*   256     8 */
	u8                         pad_2[120];           /*   264   120 */
	/* --- cacheline 6 boundary (384 bytes) --- */
	u64                        fifobar[];            /*   384     0 */

	/* size: 384, cachelines: 6, members: 10 */
};

Lastly, remove unnecessary parentheses in fifo_sz() and fix the following
checkpatch.pl warning for the whole fifo structure:

WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79



Tested-by: default avatarkernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://github.com/GustavoARSilva/linux-hardening/blob/master/cii/kernel-ci/hpilo-20200714.md


Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200714154449.GA26153@embeddedor


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 3a12c2b5
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@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ static void ctrl_setup(struct ccb *ccb, int nr_desc, int l2desc_sz)
static inline int fifo_sz(int nr_entry)
{
	/* size of a fifo is determined by the number of entries it contains */
	return (nr_entry * sizeof(u64)) + FIFOHANDLESIZE;
	return nr_entry * sizeof(u64) + FIFOHANDLESIZE;
}

static void fifo_setup(void *base_addr, int nr_entry)
+11 −11
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@@ -172,11 +172,11 @@ struct fifo {
	u64 tail;
	u8  pad_2[ILO_CACHE_SZ - (sizeof(u64))];

    u64 fifobar[1];
	u64 fifobar[];
};

/* convert between struct fifo, and the fifobar, which is saved in the ccb */
#define FIFOHANDLESIZE (sizeof(struct fifo) - sizeof(u64))
#define FIFOHANDLESIZE (sizeof(struct fifo))
#define FIFOBARTOHANDLE(_fifo) \
	((struct fifo *)(((char *)(_fifo)) - FIFOHANDLESIZE))