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Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix clang build regression

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  Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix clang build regression Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-08-12 10:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix clang build regression Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2017-08-14 14:30 +0200

#1710204 — Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix clang build regression

On Monday, August 7, 2017 4:26:51 PM IST Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> As Stefan pointed out, I misremembered what clang can do specifically,
> and it turns out that the variable-length array at the end of the
> structure did not work (a flexible array would have worked here
> but not solved the problem):
> 
> fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2303:17: error: fields must have a constant size:
> 'variable length array in structure' extension will never be supported
>                 ext4_grpblk_t counters[blocksize_bits + 2];
> 
> This reverts part of my previous patch, using a fixed-size array
> again, but keeping the check for the array overflow.
> 
> Fixes: 2df2c3402fc8 ("ext4: fix warning about stack corruption")
> Reported-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

I executed xfstests on a ppc64 machine with both 4k and 64k block size 
combination.

Tested-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

-- 
chandan

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On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 02:09:29PM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> On Monday, August 7, 2017 4:26:51 PM IST Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > As Stefan pointed out, I misremembered what clang can do specifically,
> > and it turns out that the variable-length array at the end of the
> > structure did not work (a flexible array would have worked here
> > but not solved the problem):
> > 
> > fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2303:17: error: fields must have a constant size:
> > 'variable length array in structure' extension will never be supported
> >                 ext4_grpblk_t counters[blocksize_bits + 2];
> > 
> > This reverts part of my previous patch, using a fixed-size array
> > again, but keeping the check for the array overflow.
> > 
> > Fixes: 2df2c3402fc8 ("ext4: fix warning about stack corruption")
> > Reported-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> I executed xfstests on a ppc64 machine with both 4k and 64k block size 
> combination.
> 
> Tested-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted

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