Re: [PATCHv3] gpio: Remove VLA from gpiolib

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On 03/30/2018 07:33 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 9:18 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The new challenge is to remove VLAs from the kernel
(see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621) to eventually
turn on -Wvla.

Using a kmalloc array is the easy way to fix this but kmalloc is still
more expensive than stack allocation. Introduce a fast path with a
fixed size stack array to cover most chip with gpios below some fixed
amount. The slow path dynamically allocates an array to cover those
chips with a large number of gpios.

+               ret = gpiod_set_array_value_complex(false,
                                               true,
                                               lh->numdescs,
                                               lh->descs,
                                               vals);
+               if (ret)
+                       return ret;
+
                 return 0;

Can't we

return gpiod_set_array_value_complex(); ?



Yeah I'll clean that up for v4.

+                       slowpath = kcalloc(2 * BITS_TO_LONGS(chip->ngpio),
+                                          sizeof(*slowpath),
+                                          can_sleep ? GFP_KERNEL : GFP_ATOMIC);


+                       if (slowpath)
+                               kfree(slowpath);

+               if (slowpath)
+                       kfree(slowpath);

Since slowpath is a pointer, conditionals above are redundant.

+                       slowpath = kcalloc(2 * BITS_TO_LONGS(chip->ngpio),
+                                          sizeof(*slowpath),
+                                          can_sleep ? GFP_KERNEL : GFP_ATOMIC);

+               if (slowpath)
+                       kfree(slowpath);

Ditto.


This was caught by a coccinelle script via 0-day but I think the request
was to not do it. I'll add a comment explaining why we are going against
style.

Thanks,
Laura
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