This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
RDMA/irdma: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
to the 6.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rdma-irdma-replace-one-element-array-with-flexible-a.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 815dc09cc21bd913f443e5833c55908c302f98ff
Author: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Aug 2 08:46:26 2023 -0600
RDMA/irdma: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
[ Upstream commit 38313c6d2a02c28162e06753b01bd885caf9386d ]
One-element and zero-length arrays are deprecated. So, replace
one-element array in struct irdma_qvlist_info with flexible-array
member.
A patch for this was sent a while ago[1]. However, it seems that, at
the time, the changes were partially folded[2][3], and the actual
flexible-array transformation was omitted. This patch fixes that.
The only binary difference seen before/after changes is shown below:
| drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/hw.o
| @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@
| drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/hw.c:484 (discriminator 2)
| size += struct_size(iw_qvlist, qv_info, rf->msix_count);
| 55b: imul $0x45c,%rdi,%rdi
|- 562: add $0x10,%rdi
|+ 562: add $0x4,%rdi
which is, of course, expected as it reflects the mistake made
while folding the patch I've mentioned above.
Worth mentioning is the fact that with this change we save 12 bytes
of memory, as can be inferred from the diff snapshot above. Notice
that:
$ pahole -C rdma_qv_info idrivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/hw.o
struct irdma_qv_info {
u32 v_idx; /* 0 4 */
u16 ceq_idx; /* 4 2 */
u16 aeq_idx; /* 6 2 */
u8 itr_idx; /* 8 1 */
/* size: 12, cachelines: 1, members: 4 */
/* padding: 3 */
/* last cacheline: 12 bytes */
};
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20210525230038.GA175516@embeddedor/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/bf46b428deef4e9e89b0ea1704b1f0e5@xxxxxxxxx/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20210520143809.819-1-shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u [3]
Fixes: 44d9e52977a1 ("RDMA/irdma: Implement device initialization definitions")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZMpsQrZadBaJGkt4@work
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.h
index 2323962cdeacb..de2f4c0514118 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.h
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ struct irdma_qv_info {
struct irdma_qvlist_info {
u32 num_vectors;
- struct irdma_qv_info qv_info[1];
+ struct irdma_qv_info qv_info[];
};
struct irdma_gen_ops {
