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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Introduce compile time structure size check
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:34:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180713143418.GW3126@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180712061907.24783-1-wqu@suse.com>

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 02:19:07PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> Introduce a new macro based compile time check for ioctl structures.
> 
> The new macro is BTRFS_ASSERT_SIZE(), which is mostly copied from
> VMMDEV_ASSERT_SIZE().

The macro should be generic, there's nothing specific to btrfs. There's
a similar one in the progs.

> Such check is only added to structure pended to power of 2.

There's no constraint about power of 2 sizes, it works for any size.

> And exposed one structure, btrfs_ioctl_get_dev_stats() is not aligned
> well.
> The misalign is introduced by commit b27f7c0c150f ("btrfs: join DEV_STATS
> ioctls to one").

Yeah, that was an oversight, so the correct value to check against is
1024 + 8 = 1032, see ioctl.h in progs.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-13 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-12  6:19 [PATCH] btrfs: Introduce compile time structure size check Qu Wenruo
2018-07-12  6:27 ` Nikolay Borisov
2018-07-12  6:56   ` Qu Wenruo
2018-07-13 14:34     ` David Sterba
2018-07-13 14:34 ` David Sterba [this message]
2018-07-13 14:36   ` Qu Wenruo
2018-07-13 14:46     ` David Sterba
2018-07-13 14:57       ` Qu Wenruo
2018-07-13 15:25         ` David Sterba

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