From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: keescook@chromium.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, s.mesoraca16@gmail.com,
f.fainelli@gmail.com, David.Laight@aculab.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: dsa: Remove VLA usage
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 22:37:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180718203725.GD20228@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180719.053333.396851874410198344.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 05:33:33AM +0900, David Miller wrote:
> From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:10:34 -0700
>
> > From: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com>
> >
> > We avoid 2 VLAs by using a pre-allocated field in dsa_switch. We also
> > try to avoid dynamic allocation whenever possible (when using fewer than
> > bits-per-long ports, which is the common case).
> >
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180505185145.GB32630@lunn.ch
> > Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com>
> > [kees: tweak commit subject and message slightly]
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> Florian and Andrew, please review.
Last time there was some discussion of just always allocating it to
make the code simpler. But the extra complexity is O.K.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-18 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-17 4:10 [PATCH v2] net: dsa: Remove VLA usage Kees Cook
2018-07-18 20:33 ` David Miller
2018-07-18 20:37 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-07-18 22:08 ` David Miller
2018-07-29 11:38 ` Pavel Machek
2018-07-29 11:40 ` Pavel Machek
2018-07-30 8:59 ` David Laight
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