On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 05:15:19PM -0700, Michael Davidson wrote:
> Replace a variable length array in a struct by allocating
> the memory for the entire struct in a char array on the stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <m...@google.com>
> ---
> drivers/md/raid10.c | 9 ++++-----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
> index 063c43d83b72..158ebdff782c 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
> @@ -4654,11 +4654,10 @@ static int handle_reshape_read_error(struct mddev
> *mddev,
> /* Use sync reads to get the blocks from somewhere else */
> int sectors = r10_bio->sectors;
> struct r10conf *conf = mddev->private;
> - struct {
> - struct r10bio r10_bio;
> - struct r10dev devs[conf->copies];
> - } on_stack;
> - struct r10bio *r10b = &on_stack.r10_bio;
> + char on_stack_r10_bio[sizeof(struct r10bio) +
> + conf->copies * sizeof(struct r10dev)]
> + __aligned(__alignof__(struct r10bio));
> + struct r10bio *r10b = (struct r10bio *)on_stack_r10_bio;
> int slot = 0;
> int idx = 0;
> struct bio_vec *bvec = r10_bio->master_bio->bi_io_vec;
That's disgusting. Why not fix LLVM to support this?
