Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Jun 2003 10:05:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [SPARSE] increase MAXNEST constant |
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The MAXNEST constant in sparse is currently too small for > checking most of the kernel files.
Thanks, right you are. I fixed it a bit differently, in particular it doesn't need an "int", it really needs just one bit per level, but I left it at "char" instead.
> The deepest nesting > I found in the kernel is 25, so MAXNEST=32 should probably > be sufficient. It would be nice to check overruns here, > but I did not know where to best do it.
I did that too (and I made the size of the nesting be 256, since changing it to a char means that it's fairly small).
Linus
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