On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:06:20PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Sunday 14 October 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00ring.h contains the following:
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > ...
> > /*
> > * data_desc
> > * Each data entry also contains a descriptor which is used by the
> > * device to determine what should be done with the packet and
> > * what the current status is.
> > * This structure is greatly simplified, but the descriptors
> > * are basically a list of little endian 32 bit values.
> > * Make the array by default 1 word big, this will allow us
> > * to use sizeof() correctly.
> > */
> > struct data_desc {
> > __le32 word[1];
> > };
> > ...
> > /*
> > * TX/RX Descriptor access functions.
> > */
> > static inline void rt2x00_desc_read(struct data_desc *desc,
> > const u8 word, u32 *value)
> > {
> > *value = le32_to_cpu(desc->word[word]);
> > }
> >
> > static inline void rt2x00_desc_write(struct data_desc *desc,
> > const u8 word, const u32 value)
> > {
> > desc->word[word] = cpu_to_le32(value);
> > }
> > ...
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > I haven't checked whether it might work in all cases, but passing
> > non-zero values as second parameter to rt2x00_desc_{read,write}()
> > (as is done in many cases) is even in the best case bad coding style.
>
> Access to the array is correct, even with non-zero values the code that is
> reading/writing to the array knows the exact size of the descriptor. Within
> rt2x00 are however 5 drivers who have different descriptor sizes. That means
> I can't create a structure which has the correct array length.
>
> The structure itself is just a simple map over preallocated memory
> (skb->data in case of USB or dma in case of PCI).
>
> So possible solutions would be:
> - remove struct data_desc and make it a void* or __le32*
> This is at the cost of code readibility since the above pointers
> have less meaning then a pointer to a structure which can be nicely
> documented.
>...
The worst is a wrong meaning.
__le32 word[1] is an array with _one_ element.
And an __le32* can be used as an array.
> Ivo
cu
Adrian
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