Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: drop some VLAs in switch.c

[Salvatore Mesoraca]

2018-03-13 21:06 GMT+01:00 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 03/13/2018 12:58 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
>> Hi Salvatore,
>>
>> Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> dsa_switch's num_ports is currently fixed to DSA_MAX_PORTS. So we avoid
>>> 2 VLAs[1] by using DSA_MAX_PORTS instead of ds->num_ports.
>>>
>>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> NAK.
>>
>> We are in the process to remove hardcoded limits such as DSA_MAX_PORTS
>> and DSA_MAX_SWITCHES, so we have to stick with ds->num_ports.
>
> Then this means that we need to allocate a bitmap from the heap, which
> sounds a bit superfluous and could theoretically fail... not sure which
> way is better, but bumping the size to DSA_MAX_PORTS definitively does
> help people working on enabling -Wvla.

Hi Florian,

Should I consider this patch still NAKed or not?
Should I resend the patch with some modifications?

Thank you,

Salvatore