ipc/sem.c: remove sem_base, embed struct sem
authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:34:38 +0000 (14:34 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:26:01 +0000 (16:26 -0700)
commit1a23395672658969a4035dcc518ea6cab835c579
tree1d12f7f1f215a186c9ebe31f1fb91db00f9dae1a
parente41d58185f1444368873d4d7422f7664a68be61d
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>
include/linux/sem.h
ipc/sem.c