Re: [PATCH V2] mmc: core: cd_label must be last entry of mmc_gpio struct

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Jul 04 2018 - 16:26:51 EST


On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 2:42 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 3:32 AM Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> - char cd_label[0];
>> + char cd_label[];
>
> Not that I am the smartest in the world when it comes to how the
> C compilers work this out.
>
> But isn't that equivalent to:
> char *cd_label;
> ?

No.

sizeof(foo) == bar in the original code and with your change it would be
sizeof(foo) == bar + sizeof(void *)

On top of that, the actual memory is going in one chunk and requires
only one allocation.

But, I like your below stuff, though comments

> From facb3799f479bfd4dad99c25c9c5d4c77b14c9b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 13:35:01 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] mmc: slot-gpio: Allocate GPIO labels dynamically
>
> The use of string pointers in the MMC slot GPIO context is
> pretty dubious, allocating some 2*len extra bytes for each
> label of the ro and wp pins.
>
> Tidy this up using kasprintf() with dynamic allocation of
> labels for these strings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mmc/core/slot-gpio.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/slot-gpio.c b/drivers/mmc/core/slot-gpio.c
> index ef05e0039378..c417801b366e 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/core/slot-gpio.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/core/slot-gpio.c
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ struct mmc_gpio {
> bool override_cd_active_level;
> irqreturn_t (*cd_gpio_isr)(int irq, void *dev_id);
> char *ro_label;
> - char cd_label[0];
> + char *cd_label;
> u32 cd_debounce_delay_ms;
> };
>
> @@ -47,13 +47,18 @@ int mmc_gpio_alloc(struct mmc_host *host)
> {

> size_t len = strlen(dev_name(host->parent)) + 4;

Do you need this still?

> struct mmc_gpio *ctx = devm_kzalloc(host->parent,
> - sizeof(*ctx) + 2 * len, GFP_KERNEL);
> + sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> if (ctx) {
> - ctx->ro_label = ctx->cd_label + len;
> ctx->cd_debounce_delay_ms = 200;
> - snprintf(ctx->cd_label, len, "%s cd", dev_name(host->parent));
> - snprintf(ctx->ro_label, len, "%s ro", dev_name(host->parent));
> + ctx->cd_label = devm_kasprintf(host->parent, GFP_KERNEL,
> + "%s cd", dev_name(host->parent));
> + if (!ctx->cd_label)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + ctx->ro_label = devm_kasprintf(host->parent, GFP_KERNEL,
> + "%s ro", dev_name(host->parent));
> + if (!ctx->ro_label)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> host->slot.handler_priv = ctx;
> host->slot.cd_irq = -EINVAL;
> }

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko