Re: [PATCH V2] include: linux: Regularise the use of FIELD_SIZEOF macro

[Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 09:45:10AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-06-29 at 17:25 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 03:00:10PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > On Jun 11, 2019, at 2:48 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 01:08:36 +0530 Shyam Saini <shyam.saini@amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> > > I did a check, and FIELD_SIZEOF() is used about 350x, while sizeof_field()
> > > is about 30x, and SIZEOF_FIELD() is only about 5x.
> > > 
> > > That said, I'm much more in favour of "sizeof_field()" or "sizeof_member()"
> > > than FIELD_SIZEOF().  Not only does that better match "offsetof()", with
> > > which it is closely related, but is also closer to the original "sizeof()".
> > > 
> > > Since this is a rather trivial change, it can be split into a number of
> > > patches to get approval/landing via subsystem maintainers, and there is no
> > > huge urgency to remove the original macros until the users are gone.  It
> > > would make sense to remove SIZEOF_FIELD() and sizeof_field() quickly so
> > > they don't gain more users, and the remaining FIELD_SIZEOF() users can be
> > > whittled away as the patches come through the maintainer trees.
> > 
> > The signature should be
> > 
> > 	sizeof_member(T, m)
> > 
> > it is proper English,
> > it is lowercase, so is easier to type,
> > it uses standard term (member, not field),
> > it blends in with standard "sizeof" operator,
> 
> yes please.
> 
> Also, a simple script conversion applied
> immediately after an rc1 might be easiest
> rather than individual patches.

This seems reasonable to me. I think the patch steps would be:

1) implement sizeof_member(T, m) as a stand-alone macro
2) do a scripted replacement of all identical macros.
3) remove all the identical macros.

Step 2 can be a patch that includes the script used to do the
replacement. That way Linus can choose to just run the script instead of
taking the patch.

-- 
Kees Cook