From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Christopher Bazley <chris.bazley.wg14@gmail.com>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Use ARRAY_END() instead of open-coding it
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:37:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202512101736.DE24BE89@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lo6fdczvfjb5q44euckxi5thjrply4wqk62ori4slz54ivdswj@3c234g733gzq>
On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 01:21:59AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 08:18:56AM +0900, Kees Cook wrote:
> >
> >
> > On December 11, 2025 7:46:49 AM GMT+09:00, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
> > >Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > >Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
> >
> > Hm, this seems to be missing a commit log body?
>
> Actually, there's not much to it. The patch uses ARRAY_END() where it
> was being open-coded. There aren't any bugs in this code, so it's
> purely cosmetic (and of course, to prevent future issues, in case the
> code is modified). Maybe I could say precisely that. What would you
> say here?
Yup, that would be perfect. A what/why, even a single sentence, is a
minimum for commit log bodies.
> > Are there other open-coded instances that could be replaced? This seems like a great task for a coccinelle script.
>
> There are many, but I wanted to keep them out of this initial patch set,
> to make it easy to apply. When this one is applied, I could work on a
> second round that replaces more of them with coccinelle. This is just
> for showing that this is beneficial, and to make sure that you ask for
> more. :)
>
> Also, it's easier if there are few maintainers that would block an
> initial patch set. If restrict the patch set to a few files, I don't
> have to deal with many of them. Once I get used to this, I'll deal with
> all of them.
Sounds good!
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2025-11-09 18:06 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-11-09 18:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] array_size.h: Add ARRAY_END() Alejandro Colomar
2025-11-09 19:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2025-11-09 19:18 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-11-09 18:06 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: Fix benign off-by-one bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-11-09 18:07 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] kernel: Fix off-by-one benign bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-11-09 18:07 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] mm: Use ARRAY_END() instead of open-coding it Alejandro Colomar
2025-11-09 19:45 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-11-09 19:45 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] array_size.h: Add ARRAY_END() Alejandro Colomar
2025-11-09 19:45 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: Fix benign off-by-one bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-11-09 19:45 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] kernel: Fix off-by-one benign bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-11-09 19:45 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] mm: Use ARRAY_END() instead of open-coding it Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-10 22:46 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-10 22:46 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] array_size.h: Add ARRAY_END() Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-10 22:46 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] mm: Fix benign off-by-one bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-10 22:46 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] kernel: Fix off-by-one benign bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-10 22:46 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Use ARRAY_END() instead of open-coding it Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-10 23:18 ` Kees Cook
2025-12-11 0:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-11 1:37 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2025-12-11 10:43 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-11 10:43 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] array_size.h: Add ARRAY_END() Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-11 10:43 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] mm: Fix benign off-by-one bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-11 10:44 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] kernel: Fix off-by-one benign bugs Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-11 10:44 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] mm: Use ARRAY_END() instead of open-coding it Alejandro Colomar
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