Re: [PATCH] UAPI: net/sched: Open-code __struct_group() in flex struct tc_u32_sel

[Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>]

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:58:28 -0600

> 
> 
> On 17/12/24 08:55, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>> From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
>> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:59:55 -0800
>>
>>> This switches to using a manually constructed form of struct tagging
>>> to avoid issues with C++ being unable to parse tagged structs within
>>> anonymous unions, even under 'extern "C"':
>>>
>>>    ../linux/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h:25124: error: ‘struct
>>> tc_u32_sel::<unnamed union>::tc_u32_sel_hdr,’ invalid; an anonymous
>>> union may only have public non-static data members [-fpermissive]
>>
>> I worked around that like this in the past: [0]
>> As I'm not sure it would be fine to fix every such occurrence manually
>> by open-coding.
>> What do you think?
> 
> The thing is that, in this particular case, we need a struct tag to change
> the type of an object in another struct. See:

But the fix I mentioned still allows you to specify a tag in C code...
cxgb4 is for sure not C++.

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32_parse.h b/
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32_parse.h
> index 9050568a034c..64663112cad8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32_parse.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32_parse.h
> @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ struct cxgb4_next_header {
>       * field's value to jump to next header such as IHL field
>       * in IPv4 header.
>       */
> -    struct tc_u32_sel sel;
> +    struct tc_u32_sel_hdr sel;
>      struct tc_u32_key key;
>      /* location of jump to make */
>      const struct cxgb4_match_field *jump;;
> 
> You can also take a look at the original series:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/
> cover.1723586870.git.gustavoars@kernel.org/
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> Gustavo

Thanks,
Olek