Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2018-03-09

Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: via_aux_vt1636: remove VLA usage

From: Eric Engestrom <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-09 10:11:54
Also in: dri-devel, lkml

On Wednesday, 2018-03-07 13:47:03 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
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In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
with a fixed-length array instead. Also, remove variable 'len'.

Notice that no new IDs have been added in seven years.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/via/via_aux_vt1636.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/via/via_aux_vt1636.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/via/via_aux_vt1636.c
index 9e015c1..d6273a4 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/via/via_aux_vt1636.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/via/via_aux_vt1636.c
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ void via_aux_vt1636_probe(struct via_aux_bus *bus)
 		.addr	=	0x40,
 		.name	=	name};
 	/* check vendor id and device id */
-	const u8 id[] = {0x06, 0x11, 0x45, 0x33}, len = ARRAY_SIZE(id);
-	u8 tmp[len];
+	const u8 id[4] = {0x06, 0x11, 0x45, 0x33};
+	u8 tmp[4];
 
-	if (!via_aux_read(&drv, 0x00, tmp, len) || memcmp(id, tmp, len))
+	if (!via_aux_read(&drv, 0x00, tmp, 4) || memcmp(id, tmp, 4))
I would recommend keeping ARRAY_SIZE(); even if nothing's been added in
a while, it's still clearer in the code if we can see where these `4`
come from.

Something like this instead?
----8<----
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ void via_aux_vt1636_probe(struct via_aux_bus *bus)
 		.addr	=	0x40,
 		.name	=	name};
 	/* check vendor id and device id */
-	const u8 id[] = {0x06, 0x11, 0x45, 0x33}, len = ARRAY_SIZE(id);
-	u8 tmp[len];
+	const u8 id[] = {0x06, 0x11, 0x45, 0x33};
+	u8 tmp[ARRAY_SIZE(id)];
 
-	if (!via_aux_read(&drv, 0x00, tmp, len) || memcmp(id, tmp, len))
+	if (!via_aux_read(&drv, 0x00, tmp, ARRAY_SIZE(id)) || memcmp(id, tmp, ARRAY_SIZE(id)))
 		return;
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "viafb: Found %s\n", name);
---->8----
Note that sizeof is evaluated a compile time, so `u8 tmp[ARRAY_SIZE(id)]`
is *not* a VLA. All that's needed was to remove `len` :)
 		return;
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "viafb: Found %s\n", name);
-- 
2.7.4

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