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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2018-05-31 11:45:25 -0700
committerBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>2018-06-22 00:29:39 +0200
commit02361bc7788852f33dd0a05235a52b9ccf097916 (patch)
tree1e07e38295627ab67e6794150fa0c7015adde300 /firmware
parentce397d215ccd07b8ae3f71db689aedb85d56ab40 (diff)
lib/bch: Remove VLA usage
In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this allocates a fixed size stack array to cover the range needed for bch. This was done instead of a preallocation on the SLAB due to performance reasons, shown by Ivan Djelic: little-endian, type sizes: int=4 long=8 longlong=8 cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         650  @ 3.20GHz calibration: iter=4.9143µs niter=2034 nsamples=200 m=13 t=4   Buffer allocation |  Encoding throughput (Mbit/s) ---------------------------------------------------  on-stack, VLA      |   3988  on-stack, fixed    |   4494  kmalloc            |   1967 So this change actually improves performance too, it seems. The resulting stack allocation can get rather large; without CONFIG_BCH_CONST_PARAMS, it will allocate 4096 bytes, which trips the stack size checking: lib/bch.c: In function ‘encode_bch’: lib/bch.c:261:1: warning: the frame size of 4432 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] Even the default case for "allmodconfig" (with CONFIG_BCH_CONST_M=14 and CONFIG_BCH_CONST_T=4) would have started throwing a warning: lib/bch.c: In function ‘encode_bch’: lib/bch.c:261:1: warning: the frame size of 2288 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] But this is how large it's always been; it was just hidden from the checker because it was a VLA. So the Makefile has been adjusted to silence this warning for anything smaller than 4500 bytes, which should provide room for normal cases, but still low enough to catch any future pathological situations. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com> Tested-by: Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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