Re: Buggy variable-length array code...or compiler?

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Steven J. Magnani wrote:

> When I run a memcpy dmatest with a Microblaze 2.6.33 noMMU kernel, the
> system crashes after about 400 iterations. After much head scratching, I
> believe I've narrowed the problem to this fragment of code in
> drivers/dma/dmatest.c:
> 
> static int dmatest_func(void *data)
> {
> 	struct dmatest_thread	*thread = data;
> ...
> 	unsigned int		total_tests = 0;
> 	int			src_cnt;
> 	int			dst_cnt;
> 
> ...
> 	if (thread->type == DMA_MEMCPY)
> 		src_cnt = dst_cnt = 1;
> ...
> 
> 	while (!kthread_should_stop()
> 	       && !(iterations && total_tests >= iterations)) {
> 		struct dma_device *dev = chan->device;
> 		struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx = NULL;
> 		dma_addr_t dma_srcs[src_cnt];
> 		dma_addr_t dma_dsts[dst_cnt];
> 
> 		...
> 		total_tests++;
> 
> 		/* CODE ADDED BY ME FOR DEBUG */
> 		printk("dmatest: Iteration %d, dma_srcs = %p\n",
> 		       total_tests, dma_srcs);
> 
> 		...
> 	}
> 
> With this code I get output like this:
> 
> dmatest: Iteration 1, dma_srcs = 2c963ee8
> dmatest: Iteration 2, dma_srcs = 2c963ed8
> dmatest: Iteration 3, dma_srcs = 2c963ec8
> dmatest: Iteration 4, dma_srcs = 2c963eb8
> ...
> dmatest: Iteration 420, dma_srcs = 2c9624b8
> 
> ...and then the stack detonates and the kernel crashes with some strange
> error or other.
> 

This could probably become the first kernel user of the flexible array 
library (see Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt).  Dan?
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