From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
To: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"David Gibson" <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, "Kyle Evans" <kevans@freebsd.org>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"open list:PowerPC TCG CPUs" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
"open list:Overall KVM CPUs" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] target/ppc/kvm: Replace alloca() by g_malloc()
Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 15:09:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3405dbc2-caf3-0da6-25aa-fe54f8ac8e11@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210506104130.5f617359@bahia.lan>
On 5/6/21 10:41 AM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 2021 19:00:55 +0200
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> The ALLOCA(3) man-page mentions its "use is discouraged".
>>
>> Replace it by a g_malloc() call.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> target/ppc/kvm.c | 10 +++++-----
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/target/ppc/kvm.c b/target/ppc/kvm.c
>> index 104a308abb5..ae62daddf7d 100644
>> --- a/target/ppc/kvm.c
>> +++ b/target/ppc/kvm.c
>> @@ -2698,11 +2698,11 @@ int kvmppc_save_htab(QEMUFile *f, int fd, size_t bufsize, int64_t max_ns)
>> int kvmppc_load_htab_chunk(QEMUFile *f, int fd, uint32_t index,
>> uint16_t n_valid, uint16_t n_invalid, Error **errp)
>> {
>> - struct kvm_get_htab_header *buf;
>> - size_t chunksize = sizeof(*buf) + n_valid * HASH_PTE_SIZE_64;
>> + size_t chunksize = sizeof(struct kvm_get_htab_header)
>
> It is a bit unfortunate to introduce a new dependency on the struct type.
>
> What about the following ?
>
> - struct kvm_get_htab_header *buf;
> + g_autofree struct kvm_get_htab_header *buf = NULL;
> size_t chunksize = sizeof(*buf) + n_valid * HASH_PTE_SIZE_64;
> ssize_t rc;
>
> - buf = alloca(chunksize);
> + buf = g_malloc(chunksize);
OK.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-06 13:09 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20210505170055.1415360-1-philmd@redhat.com>
2021-05-05 17:00 ` [PATCH 5/5] target/ppc/kvm: Replace alloca() by g_malloc() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-05-06 2:18 ` David Gibson
2021-05-06 8:41 ` Greg Kurz
2021-05-06 13:09 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
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