Re: [PATCH 00/10] floppy driver cleanups (deobfuscation)
From: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Date: 2020-02-26 14:57:25
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On 2/25/20 12:23 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
As indicated in commit 2e90ca6 ("floppy: check FDC index for errors
before assigning it") there are some surprising effects in the floppy
driver due to some macros referencing global or local variables while
at first glance being inoffensive.
This patchset aims at removing these macros and replacing all of their
occurrences by the equivalent code. Most of the work was done under
Coccinelle's assistance, and it was verified that the resulting binary
code is exactly the same as the original one.
The aim is not to make the driver prettier, as Linus mentioned it's
already not pretty. It only aims at making potential bugs more visible,
given almost all latest changes to this driver were fixes for out-of-
bounds and similar bugs.
As a side effect, some lines got longer, causing checkpatch to complain
a bit, but I preferred to let it complain as I didn't want to break them
apart as I'm already seeing the trap of going too far here.
The patches are broken by macro (or sets of macros when relevant) so
that each of them remains reviewable.
I can possibly go a bit further in the cleanup but I haven't used
floppies for a few years now and am not interested in doing too much
on this driver by lack of use cases.
For patches 1-10.
[x] eye checked the changes
[x] bloat-o-meter and .s diff show no real changes
[x] tested that kernel builds after every patch
[x] floppy targeted fuzzing with kasan+ubsan reveals no *new* issues
(required mainly to test the previous patch)
If Linus has no objections (regarding his review) I would prefer to
accept 1-10 patches rather to resend them again. They seems complete
to me as the first step.
I've placed the patches here:
https://github.com/evdenis/linux-floppy/commits/floppy-next
Thanks,
Denis