Re: [PATCH] vhost: make msg padding explicit

Kevin Easton
2018-05-02T14:40:19Z

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 05:19:27PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 10:04:46AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> > Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 16:36:37 +0300
> >
> > > Ouch. True - and in particular the 32 bit ABI on 64 bit kernels doesn't
> > > work at all. Hmm. It's relatively new and maybe there aren't any 32 bit
> > > users yet. Thoughts?
> >
> > If it's been in a released kernel version, we really aren't at liberty
> > to play "maybe nobody uses this" UAPI changing games.
> >
> > Please send me a revert.
>
> Sent. Looking at compat mess now.

Just naming the padding field isn't sufficient anyway, there also needs to
be code in vhost_new_msg() to initialise it using the name.

- Kevin