From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
Adaptec OEM Raid Solutions <aacraid@microsemi.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:07:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d79bde59-16c5-e006-0e31-c33c17f0ce3d@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1a6qqk68h.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com>
Hi Martin,
On 3/25/21 22:34, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>
> Gustavo,
>
>> Precisely this sort of confusion is one of the things we want to avoid
>> by using flexible-array members instead of one-element arrays.
>
> Ah, you're right!
>
> Now that I look at it again I also don't think that was the issue that
> originally caused concern.
>
> @@ -4020,7 +4020,8 @@ static int aac_convert_sgraw2(struct aac_raw_io2 *rio2, int pages, int nseg, int
> }
> }
> sge[pos] = rio2->sge[nseg-1];
> - memcpy(&rio2->sge[1], &sge[1], (nseg_new-1)*sizeof(struct sge_ieee1212));
> + memcpy(&rio2->sge[1], &sge[1],
> + flex_array_size(rio2, sge, nseg_new - 1));
>
> kfree(sge);
> rio2->sgeCnt = cpu_to_le32(nseg_new);
>
> I find it counter-intuitive to use the type of the destination array to
> size the amount of source data to copy. "Are source and destination same
The destination and source arrays are of the same type. :)
drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c:
3999 struct sge_ieee1212 *sge;
> type? Does flex_array_size() do the right thing given the ->sge[1]
> destination offset?". It wasn't immediately obvious. To me, "copy this
> many scatterlist entries" in the original is much more readable.
Yeah; it does the right thing because flex_array_size() doesn't know about
offsets. It just calculates the amount of bytes to be copied based on the
type of the object passed as second argument and a "count" passed as third
argument. So, in this case, the "count" is "nseg_new - 1", which in some
way is already taking care of that sge[1] offset.
--
Gustavo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-26 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-04 20:38 [PATCH][next] scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-03-25 1:18 ` Martin K. Petersen
2021-03-25 0:46 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-03-26 3:34 ` Martin K. Petersen
2021-03-26 3:07 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2021-04-07 19:22 ` Kees Cook
2021-04-13 4:52 ` Martin K. Petersen
2021-04-13 5:45 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-04-13 14:04 ` James Bottomley
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