[PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array

From: Michael Davidson
Date: Thu Mar 16 2017 - 20:25:17 EST


Replace a variable length array in a struct by allocating
the memory for the entire struct in a char array on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <md@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/raid10.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index 063c43d83b72..158ebdff782c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -4654,11 +4654,10 @@ static int handle_reshape_read_error(struct mddev *mddev,
/* Use sync reads to get the blocks from somewhere else */
int sectors = r10_bio->sectors;
struct r10conf *conf = mddev->private;
- struct {
- struct r10bio r10_bio;
- struct r10dev devs[conf->copies];
- } on_stack;
- struct r10bio *r10b = &on_stack.r10_bio;
+ char on_stack_r10_bio[sizeof(struct r10bio) +
+ conf->copies * sizeof(struct r10dev)]
+ __aligned(__alignof__(struct r10bio));
+ struct r10bio *r10b = (struct r10bio *)on_stack_r10_bio;
int slot = 0;
int idx = 0;
struct bio_vec *bvec = r10_bio->master_bio->bi_io_vec;
--
2.12.0.367.g23dc2f6d3c-goog