Re: [PATCH 6/6] Drop flex_arrays

[Neil Horman]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 06:41:11AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:30:47PM +0900, Xin Long wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 1:57 AM Kent Overstreet
> > <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > All existing users have been converted to generic radix trees
> > NAK, SCTP is still using flex_arrays,
> > # grep flex_array net/sctp/*
> > 
> > This patch will break the build.
> 
> sctp added that user after this patch was sent.  Please stop adding
> flexarray users!
> 
> This particular user should probably have just used kvmalloc.
> 

No, I don't think thats right.

This appears to have been sent on September 7th.  Commit
0d493b4d0be352b5e361e4fa0bc3efe952d8b10e, which added the use of flex_arrays to
sctp, seems to have been merged on August 10th, a month prior.

regardless, however, sctp has a current in-tree use of flex_arrays, and merging
this patch will break the build without a respin.

Neil