Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Use ARRAY_END() instead of open-coding it

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 01:21:59AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Kees,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 08:18:56AM +0900, Kees Cook wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On December 11, 2025 7:46:49 AM GMT+09:00, Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >Cc: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Hm, this seems to be missing a commit log body?
> 
> Actually, there's not much to it.  The patch uses ARRAY_END() where it
> was being open-coded.  There aren't any bugs in this code, so it's
> purely cosmetic (and of course, to prevent future issues, in case the
> code is modified).  Maybe I could say precisely that.  What would you
> say here?

Yup, that would be perfect. A what/why, even a single sentence, is a
minimum for commit log bodies.

> > Are there other open-coded instances that could be replaced? This seems like a great task for a coccinelle script.
> 
> There are many, but I wanted to keep them out of this initial patch set,
> to make it easy to apply.  When this one is applied, I could work on a
> second round that replaces more of them with coccinelle.  This is just
> for showing that this is beneficial, and to make sure that you ask for
> more.  :)
> 
> Also, it's easier if there are few maintainers that would block an
> initial patch set.  If restrict the patch set to a few files, I don't
> have to deal with many of them.  Once I get used to this, I'll deal with
> all of them.

Sounds good!

-Kees

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Kees Cook