- 23 Apr, 2020 21 commits
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
The notion of a 'preferred' load offset for the kernel dates back to the times when the kernel's primary mapping overlapped with the linear region, and memory below it could not be used at all. Today, the arm64 kernel does not really care where it is loaded in physical memory, as long as the alignment requirements are met, and so there is no point in unconditionally moving the kernel to a new location in memory at boot. Instead, we can - check for a KASLR seed, and randomly reallocate the kernel if one is provided - otherwise, check whether the alignment requirements are met for the current placement of the kernel, and just run it in place if they are - finally, do an ordinary page allocation and reallocate the kernel to a suitably aligned buffer anywhere in memory. By the same reasoning, there is no need to take TEXT_OFFSET into account if it is a round multiple of the minimum alignment, which is the usual case for relocatable kernels with TEXT_OFFSET randomization disabled. Otherwise, it suffices to use the relative misaligment of TEXT_OFFSET when reallocating the kernel. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
The implementation of efi_random_alloc() arbitrarily truncates the provided random seed to 16 bits, which limits the granularity of the randomly chosen allocation offset in memory. This is currently only an issue if the size of physical memory exceeds 128 GB, but going forward, we will reduce the allocation alignment to 64 KB, and this means we need to increase the granularity to ensure that the random memory allocations are distributed evenly. We will need to switch to 64-bit arithmetic for the multiplication, but this does not result in 64-bit integer intrinsic calls on ARM or on i386. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
The EFI stub uses a per-architecture #define for the minimum base and size alignment of page allocations, which is set to 4 KB for all architecures except arm64, which uses 64 KB, to ensure that allocations can always be (un)mapped efficiently, regardless of the page size used by the kernel proper, which could be a kexec'ee The API wrappers around page based allocations assume that this alignment is always taken into account, and so efi_free() will also round up its size argument to EFI_ALLOC_ALIGN. Currently, efi_random_alloc() does not honour this alignment for the allocated size, and so freeing such an allocation may result in unrelated memory to be freed, potentially leading to issues after boot. So let's round up size in efi_random_alloc() as well. Fixes: 2ddbfc81 ("efi: stub: add implementation of efi_random_alloc()") Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Add the ability to automatically pick the highest resolution video mode (defined as the product of vertical and horizontal resolution) by using a command-line argument of the form video=efifb:auto If there are multiple modes with the highest resolution, pick one with the highest color depth. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200328160601.378299-2-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Extend the video mode argument to handle an optional color depth specification of the form video=efifb:<xres>x<yres>[-(rgb|bgr|<bpp>)] Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-14-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Add the ability to choose a video mode using a command-line argument of the form video=efifb:<xres>x<yres> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-13-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Add the ability to choose a video mode for the selected gop by using a command-line argument of the form video=efifb:mode=<n> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-12-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Add prototypes and argmap for the Graphics Output Protocol's QueryMode and SetMode functions. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-11-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
pixel_format must be one of PIXEL_RGB_RESERVED_8BIT_PER_COLOR PIXEL_BGR_RESERVED_8BIT_PER_COLOR PIXEL_BIT_MASK since we skip PIXEL_BLT_ONLY when finding a gop. Remove the redundant code and add another check in find_gop to skip any pixel formats that we don't know about, in case a later version of the UEFI spec adds one. Reformat the code a little. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-10-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Use the __ffs/__fls macros to calculate the position and size of the mask. Correct type of mask to u32 instead of unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-9-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Use the lower/upper_32_bits macros from kernel.h to initialize si->lfb_base and si->ext_lfb_base. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-8-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Declare the variables inside the block where they're used. Get rid of a couple of redundant initializers. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-7-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Small cleanup to get rid of conout_found. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-6-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Move the loop to find a gop into its own function. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-5-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
Move extraction of the mode information parameters outside the loop to find the gop, and eliminate some redundant variables. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-4-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
If the gop doesn't have a framebuffer, there's no point in checking for con_out support. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-3-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Arvind Sankar authored
current_fb_base isn't used for anything except assigning to fb_base if we locate a suitable gop. Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320020028.1936003-2-nivedita@alum.mit.eduSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Zou Wei authored
Fix the following sparse warning: drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c:68:6: warning: symbol 'install_memreserve_table' was not declared. Should it be static? Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Zou Wei <zou_wei@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1587643713-28169-1-git-send-email-zou_wei@huawei.comSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
We have wrappers around EFI calls so that x86 can define special versions for mixed mode, while all other architectures can use the same simple definition that just issues the call directly. In preparation for the arrival of yet another architecture that doesn't need anything special here (RISC-V), let's move the default definition into a shared header. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
Loading an initrd passed via the kernel command line is deprecated: it is limited to files that reside in the same volume as the one the kernel itself was loaded from, and we have more flexible ways to achieve the same. So make it configurable so new architectures can decide not to enable it. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Atish Patra authored
Most of the arm-stub code is written in an architecture independent manner. As a result, RISC-V can reuse most of the arm-stub code. Rename the arm-stub.c to efi-stub.c so that ARM, ARM64 and RISC-V can use it. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200415195422.19866-2-atish.patra@wdc.comSigned-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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- 19 Apr, 2020 12 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Brian Geffon authored
When remapping a mapping where a portion of a VMA is remapped into another portion of the VMA it can cause the VMA to become split. During the copy_vma operation the VMA can actually be remerged if it's an anonymous VMA whose pages have not yet been faulted. This isn't normally a problem because at the end of the remap the original portion is unmapped causing it to become split again. However, MREMAP_DONTUNMAP leaves that original portion in place which means that the VMA which was split and then remerged is not actually split at the end of the mremap. This patch fixes a bug where we don't detect that the VMAs got remerged and we end up putting back VM_ACCOUNT on the next mapping which is completely unreleated. When that next mapping is unmapped it results in incorrectly unaccounting for the memory which was never accounted, and eventually we will underflow on the memory comittment. There is also another issue which is similar, we're currently accouting for the number of pages in the new_vma but that's wrong. We need to account for the length of the remap operation as that's all that is being added. If there was a mapping already at that location its comittment would have been adjusted as part of the munmap at the start of the mremap. A really simple repro can be seen in: https://gist.github.com/bgaff/e101ce99da7d9a8c60acc641d07f312c Fixes: e346b381 ("mm/mremap: add MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to mremap()") Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull clk fixes from Stephen Boyd: "Two build fixes for a couple clk drivers and a fix for the Unisoc serial clk where we want to keep it on for earlycon" * tag 'clk-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux: clk: sprd: don't gate uart console clock clk: mmp2: fix link error without mmp2 clk: asm9260: fix __clk_hw_register_fixed_rate_with_accuracy typo
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull x86 and objtool fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A set of fixes for x86 and objtool: objtool: - Ignore the double UD2 which is emitted in BUG() when CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP is enabled. - Support clang non-section symbols in objtool ORC dump - Fix switch table detection in .text.unlikely - Make the BP scratch register warning more robust. x86: - Increase microcode maximum patch size for AMD to cope with new CPUs which have a larger patch size. - Fix a crash in the resource control filesystem when the removal of the default resource group is attempted. - Preserve Code and Data Prioritization enabled state accross CPU hotplug. - Update split lock cpu matching to use the new X86_MATCH macros. - Change the split lock enumeration as Intel finaly decided that the IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES bits are not architectural contrary to what the SDM claims. !@#%$^! - Add Tremont CPU models to the split lock detection cpu match. - Add a missing static attribute to make sparse happy" * tag 'x86-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/split_lock: Add Tremont family CPU models x86/split_lock: Bits in IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES are not architectural x86/resctrl: Preserve CDP enable over CPU hotplug x86/resctrl: Fix invalid attempt at removing the default resource group x86/split_lock: Update to use X86_MATCH_INTEL_FAM6_MODEL() x86/umip: Make umip_insns static x86/microcode/AMD: Increase microcode PATCH_MAX_SIZE objtool: Make BP scratch register warning more robust objtool: Fix switch table detection in .text.unlikely objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC dump objtool: Fix CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP unreachable warnings
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull time namespace fix from Thomas Gleixner: "An update for the proc interface of time namespaces: Use symbolic names instead of clockid numbers. The usability nuisance of numbers was noticed by Michael when polishing the man page" * tag 'timers-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: proc, time/namespace: Show clock symbolic names in /proc/pid/timens_offsets
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull perf tooling fixes and updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Fix the header line of perf stat output for '--metric-only --per-socket' - Fix the python build with clang - The usual tools UAPI header synchronization * tag 'perf-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tools headers: Synchronize linux/bits.h with the kernel sources tools headers: Adopt verbatim copy of compiletime_assert() from kernel sources tools headers: Update x86's syscall_64.tbl with the kernel sources tools headers UAPI: Sync drm/i915_drm.h with the kernel sources tools headers UAPI: Update tools's copy of drm.h headers tools headers kvm: Sync linux/kvm.h with the kernel sources tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/fscrypt.h with the kernel sources tools include UAPI: Sync linux/vhost.h with the kernel sources tools arch x86: Sync asm/cpufeatures.h with the kernel sources tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/mman.h with the kernel tools headers UAPI: Sync sched.h with the kernel tools headers: Update linux/vdso.h and grab a copy of vdso/const.h perf stat: Fix no metric header if --per-socket and --metric-only set perf python: Check if clang supports -fno-semantic-interposition tools arch x86: Sync the msr-index.h copy with the kernel sources
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A set of fixes/updates for the interrupt subsystem: - Remove setup_irq() and remove_irq(). All users have been converted so remove them before new users surface. - A set of bugfixes for various interrupt chip drivers - Add a few missing static attributes to address sparse warnings" * tag 'irq-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1: Make bcm7038_l1_of_init() static irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Make legacy_bindings static irqchip/meson-gpio: Fix HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order irqchip/sifive-plic: Fix maximum priority threshold value irqchip/ti-sci-inta: Fix processing of masked irqs irqchip/mbigen: Free msi_desc on device teardown irqchip/gic-v4.1: Update effective affinity of virtual SGIs irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add support for VPENDBASER's Dirty+Valid signaling genirq: Remove setup_irq() and remove_irq()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "Two fixes for the scheduler: - Work around an uninitialized variable warning where GCC can't figure it out. - Allow 'isolcpus=' to skip unknown subparameters so that older kernels work with the commandline of a newer kernel. Improve the error output while at it" * tag 'sched-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/vtime: Work around an unitialized variable warning sched/isolation: Allow "isolcpus=" to skip unknown sub-parameters
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull RCU fix from Thomas Gleixner: "A single bugfix for RCU to prevent taking a lock in NMI context" * tag 'core-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: rcu: Don't acquire lock in NMI handler in rcu_nmi_enter_common()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o: "Miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups for ext4, including a fix for generic/388 in data=journal mode, removing some BUG_ON's, and cleaning up some compiler warnings" * tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: convert BUG_ON's to WARN_ON's in mballoc.c ext4: increase wait time needed before reuse of deleted inode numbers ext4: remove set but not used variable 'es' in ext4_jbd2.c ext4: remove set but not used variable 'es' ext4: do not zeroout extents beyond i_disksize ext4: fix return-value types in several function comments ext4: use non-movable memory for superblock readahead ext4: use matching invalidatepage in ext4_writepage
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git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull cifs fixes from Steve French: "Three small smb3 fixes: two debug related (helping network tracing for SMB2 mounts, and the other removing an unintended debug line on signing failures), and one fixing a performance problem with 64K pages" * tag '5.7-rc-smb3-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: smb3: remove overly noisy debug line in signing errors cifs: improve read performance for page size 64KB & cache=strict & vers=2.1+ cifs: dump the session id and keys also for SMB2 sessions
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'flexible-array-member-5.7-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux Pull flexible-array member conversion from Gustavo Silva: "The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member convertions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues. Notice that all of these patches have been baking in linux-next for quite a while now and, 238 more of these patches have already been merged into 5.7-rc1. There are a couple hundred more of these issues waiting to be addressed in the whole codebase" [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") * tag 'flexible-array-member-5.7-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux: (28 commits) xattr.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member uapi: linux: fiemap.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member uapi: linux: dlm_device.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member tpm_eventlog.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member ti_wilink_st.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member swap.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member skbuff.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member sched: topology.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member rslib.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member rio.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member posix_acl.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member platform_data: wilco-ec.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member memcontrol.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member list_lru.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member lib: cpu_rmap: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member irq.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member ihex.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member igmp.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member genalloc.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member ethtool.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member ...
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- 18 Apr, 2020 7 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds authored
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley: "Seven fixes: three in target, one on a sg error leg, two in qla2xxx fixing warnings introduced in the last merge window and updating MAINTAINERS and one in hisi_sas fixing a problem introduced by libata" * tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: scsi: sg: add sg_remove_request in sg_common_write scsi: target: tcmu: reset_ring should reset TCMU_DEV_BIT_BROKEN scsi: target: fix PR IN / READ FULL STATUS for FC scsi: target: Write NULL to *port_nexus_ptr if no ISID scsi: MAINTAINERS: Update qla2xxx FC-SCSI driver maintainer scsi: qla2xxx: Fix regression warnings scsi: hisi_sas: Fix build error without SATA_HOST
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Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
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