From: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>,
Abhishek Bapat <abhishekbapat@google.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alloc_tag: avoid implicit padding in uapi
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:08:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260916010812.102238-1-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260915202404.3568029-1-arnd@kernel.org>
On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:23:47 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> The impliied padding causes a harmless warning when testing the uapi
s/impliied/implied/
> headers with -Wpadded that could in theory indicate incompatibilies or
s/incompatibilies/incompatibilities/
> data leaks:
>
> ./usr/include/linux/alloc_tag.h:41:1: error: padding struct size to alignment boundary with 7 bytes [-Werror=padded]
>
> The code here is fine, but it's better to make the padding explicit
> and avoid the warning here.
Typos are trivial and the change makes sense to me.
>
> Fixes: 1d581ab2348c ("alloc_tag: add ioctl to /proc/allocinfo")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Thanks,
SJ
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 20:23 [PATCH] alloc_tag: avoid implicit padding in uapi Arnd Bergmann
2026-09-15 21:37 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-09-16 1:08 ` SJ Park [this message]
2026-09-16 6:23 ` Hao Ge
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