ipc/sem.c: remove sem_base, embed struct sem
sma->sem_base is initialized with
sma->sem_base = (struct sem *) &sma[1];
The current code has four problems:
- There is an unnecessary pointer dereference - sem_base is not needed.
- Alignment for struct sem only works by chance.
- The current code causes false positive for static code analysis.
- This is a cast between different non-void types, which the future
randstruct GCC plugin warns on.
And, as bonus, the code size gets smaller:
Before:
0 .text 00003770
After:
0 .text 0000374e
[manfred@colorfullife.com: s/[0]/[]/, per hch]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525185107.12869-2-manfred@colorfullife.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515171912.6298-2-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: <1vier1@web.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/sem.h b/include/linux/sem.h
index 9edec92..9db1409 100644
--- a/include/linux/sem.h
+++ b/include/linux/sem.h
@@ -8,11 +8,29 @@
struct task_struct;
+/* One semaphore structure for each semaphore in the system. */
+struct sem {
+ int semval; /* current value */
+ /*
+ * PID of the process that last modified the semaphore. For
+ * Linux, specifically these are:
+ * - semop
+ * - semctl, via SETVAL and SETALL.
+ * - at task exit when performing undo adjustments (see exit_sem).
+ */
+ int sempid;
+ spinlock_t lock; /* spinlock for fine-grained semtimedop */
+ struct list_head pending_alter; /* pending single-sop operations */
+ /* that alter the semaphore */
+ struct list_head pending_const; /* pending single-sop operations */
+ /* that do not alter the semaphore*/
+ time_t sem_otime; /* candidate for sem_otime */
+} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+
/* One sem_array data structure for each set of semaphores in the system. */
struct sem_array {
struct kern_ipc_perm sem_perm; /* permissions .. see ipc.h */
time_t sem_ctime; /* last change time */
- struct sem *sem_base; /* ptr to first semaphore in array */
struct list_head pending_alter; /* pending operations */
/* that alter the array */
struct list_head pending_const; /* pending complex operations */
@@ -21,6 +39,8 @@ struct sem_array {
int sem_nsems; /* no. of semaphores in array */
int complex_count; /* pending complex operations */
unsigned int use_global_lock;/* >0: global lock required */
+
+ struct sem sems[];
};
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC