Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] devres: provide devm_krealloc()

[Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 1:04 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 01:51:19PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:59:19AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:35 AM Andy Shevchenko
> > > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 08:51:08PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > > > +static struct devres *to_devres(void *data)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > +     return data - ALIGN(sizeof(struct devres), ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN);
> > > > > +}
> > > > > +
> > > > > +static size_t devres_data_size(size_t total_size)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > +     return total_size - ALIGN(sizeof(struct devres), ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN);
> > > > > +}
>
> > > The data pointer in struct devres is defined as:
> > >
> > >     u8 __aligned(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN) data[];
> > >
> > > And this value (assigned the value of ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN) varies from
> > > one arch to another. I wasn't really sure if offsetof() would work for
> > > every case so I went with something very explicit.
> >
> > I have checked with a small program simulating to_devres() with your variant,
> > offsetof() and container_of().
> >
> > The result is this: if MINALIGN < sizeof(long) and since struct is unpacked the
> > offsetof(), and thus container_of(), gives correct result, while ALIGN()
> > approach mistakenly moves pointer too back.
>
> ...
>
> > I think you need to change this to use container_of() and offsetof().
>
> To be clear, there is probably no real problem, except unlikely possible
> MINALIGN=4 on 64-bit arch, but for sake of the correctness.
>

Thanks for taking the time to check it. I'll switch to container_of()
for (hopefully) the last iteration.

Bart