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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] userns: improve uid/gid map collision detection
Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:46:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> eek, a macro! Macros are always bad.
>>
>> This one is bad because
>>
>> a) it's a macro
>>
>> b) it evaluates its args multiple times and hence will cause nasty
>> bugs if called with expressions-with-side-effects.
>>
>> c) it evaluates its args multiple times and if called with
>> non-trivial expressions the compiler might not be able to CSE those
>> expressions, leading to code bloat.
>>
>> Add lo, this patch:
>>
>> --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c~userns-improve-uid-gid-map-collision-detection-fix
>> +++ a/kernel/user_namespace.c
>> @@ -521,7 +521,11 @@ struct seq_operations proc_projid_seq_op
>>
>> static DEFINE_MUTEX(id_map_mutex);
>>
>> -#define in_range(b,first,len) ((b)>=(first)&&(b)<(first)+(len))
>> +static bool in_range(u32 b, u32 first, u32 len)
>> +{
>> + return b >= first && b < first + len;
>> +}
>> +
>> static inline int extent_collision(struct uid_gid_map *new_map,
>> struct uid_gid_extent *extent)
>> {
>>
>> reduces the user_namespace.o text from 4822 bytes to 4727 with
>> gcc-4.4.4. This is a remarkably large difference.
>
> thanks Andrew
>
> (I see Eric already answered about the config option)

Aritsteu after looking at both my version and yours I am going with
mine. While my code is a little wordier I have half the number of
comparisons your code does, and I took the time to kill the variable
introducing a function to test for range collisions makes unnecessary.
On Andrews size metric my version seems noticably smaller as well.

size $PWD-build/kernel/user_namespace.o
text data bss dec hex filename
4376 144 0 4520 11a8 /home/eric/projects/linux/linux-userns-devel-build/kernel/user_namespace.o


Short of something unexpected I plan to push all my code to linux-next
sometime tomorrow.

Eric



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