Re: [Xen-devel] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches

2019-01-24 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 07:55:51AM +1300, Kees Cook wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 4:44 AM Jani Nikula > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Edwin Zimmerman wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Jani Nikula wrote: > > >> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Greg KH wrote: > > >> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:03:

Re: [Xen-devel] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches

2019-01-23 Thread Kees Cook
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 8:18 AM Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 04:17:30PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote: > > Can't have: > > > > switch (i) { > > int j; > > case 0: > > /* ... */ > > } > > > > because it can't be turned into: > > > >

Re: [Xen-devel] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches

2019-01-23 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 04:17:30PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote: > Can't have: > > switch (i) { > int j; > case 0: > /* ... */ > } > > because it can't be turned into: > > switch (i) { > int j = 0; /* not valid C */ > case 0: >

Re: [Xen-devel] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches

2019-01-23 Thread Kees Cook
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 4:44 AM Jani Nikula wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Edwin Zimmerman wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Jani Nikula wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Greg KH wrote: > >> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:03:47AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > >> >> Variables declared in a switch statem

Re: [Xen-devel] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches

2019-01-23 Thread Jani Nikula
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Edwin Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Jani Nikula wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Greg KH wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:03:47AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: >> >> Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements >> >> cannot be initialized, so m

Re: [Xen-devel] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches

2019-01-23 Thread Edwin Zimmerman
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:03:47AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > >> Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements > >> cannot be initialized, so move all instances out of the switches. > >> After t

Re: [Xen-devel] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches

2019-01-23 Thread Jani Nikula
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Greg KH wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:03:47AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: >>> Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements >>> cannot be initialized, so move all instances out of the switches. >>> After this,

Re: [Xen-devel] [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches

2019-01-23 Thread Jani Nikula
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:03:47AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: >> Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements >> cannot be initialized, so move all instances out of the switches. >> After this, future always-initialized stack variables will