Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 6 authors, 2018-03-13

Re: [PATCH] device_handler: remove VLAs

From: Stephen Kitt <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-10 13:14:22
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Hi Bart,

On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 22:48:10 +0000, Bart Van Assche [off-list ref]
wrote:
On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 23:32 +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote:
quoted
In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLAs and replace them with
fixed-length arrays instead.

scsi_dh_{alua,emc,rdac} use variable-length array declarations to
store command blocks, with the appropriate size as determined by
COMMAND_SIZE. This patch replaces these with fixed-sized arrays using
MAX_COMMAND_SIZE, so that the array size can be determined at compile
time.  
If COMMAND_SIZE() is evaluated at compile time, do we still need this patch?
The two patches I sent were supposed to be alternative solutions; see
https://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=152063671005295&w=2 for the introduction (I
seem to have messed up the headers, so the mails didn’t end up threaded
properly).

The MAX_COMMAND_SIZE approach is nice and simple, but I thought it worth
eliminating scsi_command_size_tbl while I was at it...

Regards,

Stephen

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