macro: introduce COUNT_ARGS() macro

move COUNT_ARGS() macro from apparmor to generic header and extend it
to count till twelve.

COUNT() was an alternative name for this logic, but it's used for
different purpose in many other places.

Similarly for CONCATENATE() macro.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 3fd291503576f1407e633851bec2b785152e6576..293fa0677fba672d4c35d778ff7568e3874e61e8 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -919,6 +919,13 @@ static inline void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode) { }
 #define swap(a, b) \
        do { typeof(a) __tmp = (a); (a) = (b); (b) = __tmp; } while (0)
 
+/* This counts to 12. Any more, it will return 13th argument. */
+#define __COUNT_ARGS(_0, _1, _2, _3, _4, _5, _6, _7, _8, _9, _10, _11, _12, _n, X...) _n
+#define COUNT_ARGS(X...) __COUNT_ARGS(, ##X, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0)
+
+#define __CONCAT(a, b) a ## b
+#define CONCATENATE(a, b) __CONCAT(a, b)
+
 /**
  * container_of - cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure
  * @ptr:       the pointer to the member.

diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/path.h b/security/apparmor/include/path.h
index 05fb3305671e7123ee464d2a7cfd516deb3e1728..e042b994f2b8bae575abe142dcdc7c3e2b5828f2 100644 (file)
--- a/security/apparmor/include/path.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/path.h
@@ -43,15 +43,10 @@ struct aa_buffers {
 
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct aa_buffers, aa_buffers);
 
-#define COUNT_ARGS(X...) COUNT_ARGS_HELPER(, ##X, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0)
-#define COUNT_ARGS_HELPER(_0, _1, _2, _3, _4, _5, _6, _7, _8, _9, n, X...) n
-#define CONCAT(X, Y) X ## Y
-#define CONCAT_AFTER(X, Y) CONCAT(X, Y)
-
 #define ASSIGN(FN, X, N) ((X) = FN(N))
 #define EVAL1(FN, X) ASSIGN(FN, X, 0) /*X = FN(0)*/
 #define EVAL2(FN, X, Y...) do { ASSIGN(FN, X, 1);  EVAL1(FN, Y); } while (0)
-#define EVAL(FN, X...) CONCAT_AFTER(EVAL, COUNT_ARGS(X))(FN, X)
+#define EVAL(FN, X...) CONCATENATE(EVAL, COUNT_ARGS(X))(FN, X)
 
 #define for_each_cpu_buffer(I) for ((I) = 0; (I) < MAX_PATH_BUFFERS; (I)++)