[tip:core/rcu] rcu: Limit rcu_state::levelcnt[] to RCU_NUM_LVLS items

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Commit-ID:  a6d77081e266605c9f4d8c11e0ee00468b9dc614
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a6d77081e266605c9f4d8c11e0ee00468b9dc614
Author:     Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 08:18:27 +0200
Committer:  Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:45:16 -0700

rcu: Limit rcu_state::levelcnt[] to RCU_NUM_LVLS items

Variable rcu_num_lvls is limited by RCU_NUM_LVLS macro.
In turn, rcu_state::levelcnt[] array is never accessed
beyond rcu_num_lvls. Thus, rcu_state::levelcnt[] is safe
to limit to RCU_NUM_LVLS items.

Since rcu_num_lvls could be changed during boot (as result
of rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf kernel parameter update) one might
assume a new value could overflow the value of RCU_NUM_LVLS.
However, that is not the case, since leaf-level fanout is only
permitted to increase, resulting in rcu_num_lvls possibly to
decrease.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
index f1f4784..a6faae5 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ do {									\
 struct rcu_state {
 	struct rcu_node node[NUM_RCU_NODES];	/* Hierarchy. */
 	struct rcu_node *level[RCU_NUM_LVLS];	/* Hierarchy levels. */
-	u32 levelcnt[MAX_RCU_LVLS + 1];		/* # nodes in each level. */
+	u32 levelcnt[RCU_NUM_LVLS];		/* # nodes in each level. */
 	u8 levelspread[RCU_NUM_LVLS];		/* kids/node in each level. */
 	u8 flavor_mask;				/* bit in flavor mask. */
 	struct rcu_data __percpu *rda;		/* pointer of percu rcu_data. */
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