[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm: move allocation out of drm_get_format_name()

[Eric Engestrom]

On Sunday, 2016-11-06 08:03:47 -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Christian König
> <christian.koenig at amd.com> wrote:
> > Am 05.11.2016 um 17:49 schrieb Rob Clark:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Eric Engestrom <eric at engestrom.ch> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Saturday, 2016-11-05 13:11:36 +0100, Christian König wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Am 05.11.2016 um 02:33 schrieb Eric Engestrom:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> +typedef char drm_format_name_buf[32];
> >>>>
> >>>> Please don't use a typedef for this, just define the maximum size of
> >>>> characters the function might write somewhere.
> >>>>
> >>>> See the kernel coding style as well:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In general, a pointer, or a struct that has elements that can
> >>>>> reasonably
> >>>>> be directly accessed should **never** be a typedef.
> >>>
> >>> I would normally agree as I tend to hate typedefs ($DAYJOB {ab,mis}uses
> >>> them way too much), and your way was what I wrote at first, but Rob
> >>> Clark's
> >>> typedef idea makes it much harder for someone to allocate a buffer of
> >>> the wrong size, which IMO is good thing here.
> >>
> >> IMHO I would make a small test program to verify this actually helps
> >> the compiler catch problems.  And if it does, I would stick with it.
> >> The coding-style should be guidelines, not something that supersedes
> >> common sense / practicality.
> >
> >
> > Well completely agree that we should be able to question the coding style
> > rules, but when we do it we discuss this on a the mailing list first and
> > then start to use it in code. Not the other way around.
> 
> if I'm not mistaken, that is what we are doing ;-)
> 
> >>
> >> That is my $0.02 anyways.. if others vehemently disagree and want to
> >> dogmatically stick to the coding-style guidelines, ok then.  OTOH, if
> >> this approach doesn't help the compiler catch issues, then it isn't
> >> worth it.
> >
> >
> > Yeah, exactly that's the point. If I'm not completely mistaken the compiler
> > won't issue a warning here if you pass an array with the wrong size.
> >
> > I think you need something like "struct drm_format_name_buf { char str[32];
> > };" to trigger this.
> 
> hmm, actually the struct is a nice idea then if the compiler wouldn't
> catch the wrong-size-array

Sending the patch in a minute.

> 
> > apart from that is this function really called so often that using
> > kasprintf() is a problem here? or is there another motivation behind the
> > change?
> 
> two things trouble me about the kasprintf approach.. (ignoring the
> fact that atm it is not gfp_atomic)
> 1) you can't do drm_debug("format: %s\n", drm_get_format_name(..)) so
> it pulls the memory allocation and sprintf outside of the drm_debug
> check
> 2) seems awfully easy to forget the kfree...

I actually found a couple of these memory leaks while doing this patch,
look for files where i don't remove kfree :)
(eg. vmwgfx at the end of the patch)

> i wouldn't have even
> known that now you need to free the result (with some patches i'm
> working on) if it weren't for the fact that lockdep alerted me to the
> gfp_kernel allocation in atomic ctx ;-)
> 
> br,
> -r