Re: [PATCH] rtc: remove VLA usage

["Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>]

On 03/07/2018 05:01 PM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 07/03/2018 at 16:39:51 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> Hi Alexandre,
>>
>> On 03/07/2018 03:25 PM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
>>> On 07/03/2018 at 14:11:33 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>>>> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
>>>> with a fixed-length array instead.
>>>>
>>> You should probably explain what VLA is and why this is important to do.
>> Sure. I can elaborate a little bit more.
>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/rtc/rtc-bq32k.c  | 2 +-
>>>>    drivers/rtc/rtc-mcp795.c | 2 +-
>>>>    2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-bq32k.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-bq32k.c
>>>> index e8698e9..e4b234a 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-bq32k.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-bq32k.c
>>>> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static int bq32k_read(struct device *dev, void *data, uint8_t off, uint8_t len)
>>>>    static int bq32k_write(struct device *dev, void *data, uint8_t off, uint8_t len)
>>>>    {
>>>>    	struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(dev);
>>>> -	uint8_t buffer[len + 1];
>>>> +	uint8_t buffer[256];
>>> You chose to change len to 255, probably because this is a uint8_t but
>> Correct.
>>
>>> this is way too much for this rtc, it only has 10 consecutive registers.
>> In that case probably the best solution is to add the following line to the
>> module:
>>
>> #define MAX_LEN 10
>>
>> and update the rest of the code as follows:
>>
>> uint8_t buffer[MAX_LEN + 1];
>>
> Seems better, yes.
>
>>>>    	buffer[0] = off;
>>>>    	memcpy(&buffer[1], data, len);
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mcp795.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mcp795.c
>>>> index 79e24ea..00e11c1 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mcp795.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mcp795.c
>>>> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static int mcp795_rtcc_write(struct device *dev, u8 addr, u8 *data, u8 count)
>>>>    {
>>>>    	struct spi_device *spi = to_spi_device(dev);
>>>>    	int ret;
>>>> -	u8 tx[2 + count];
>>>> +	u8 tx[257];
>> For this particular case it seems to me that the following works just fine:
>>
>> #define MAX_COUNT 7
>>
>> u8 tx[MAX_COUNT + 2];
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
> Nope, that RTC has a section of 255 bytes that could be read at once so
> 257 is the correct value.
>

I see...

I was looking into this piece of code drivers/rtc/rtc-mcp795.c:302:

         tmp[0] = (tmp[0] & 0x80) | bin2bcd(alm->time.tm_sec);
         tmp[1] = (tmp[1] & 0x80) | bin2bcd(alm->time.tm_min);
         tmp[2] = (tmp[2] & 0xE0) | bin2bcd(alm->time.tm_hour);
         tmp[3] = (tmp[3] & 0x80) | bin2bcd(alm->time.tm_wday + 1);
         /* set alarm match: seconds, minutes, hour, day, date and month */
         tmp[3] |= (MCP795_ALM0C2_BIT | MCP795_ALM0C1_BIT | 
MCP795_ALM0C0_BIT);
         tmp[4] = (tmp[4] & 0xC0) | bin2bcd(alm->time.tm_mday);
         tmp[5] = (tmp[5] & 0xE0) | bin2bcd(alm->time.tm_mon + 1);

         ret = mcp795_rtcc_write(dev, MCP795_REG_ALM0_SECONDS, tmp, 
sizeof(tmp));


OK. I'll work on v2 of this patch. I'll send it shortly.

Thanks
--
Gustavo