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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>,
	Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: dsa: sync dsa_mall_policer_tc_entry with FLOW_ACTION_POLICE
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:22:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260129152201.389fac74@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260126061340.757543-2-mmyangfl@gmail.com>

On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:13:29 +0800 David Yang wrote:
> -	policer->rate_bytes_per_sec = act->police.rate_bytes_ps;
> -	policer->burst = act->police.burst;
> +	/* so sad, flow_offload.h did not export the type of act->police, and
> +	 * it's a nightmare to copy it field by field
> +	 */
> +	static_assert(sizeof(act->police) == sizeof(*policer));
> +	memcpy(policer, &act->police, sizeof(*policer));

This is of course an unacceptable hack. Nobody will realize that
there's a layout dependency here, not to mention struct randomization.
If someone adds fields presumably they will have to update
dsa_mall_policer_tc_entry_type() anyway, so we aren't saving much with this hack

  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-29 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-26  6:13 [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: dsa: sync dsa_mall_policer_tc_entry with FLOW_ACTION_POLICE David Yang
2026-01-26  6:13 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] " David Yang
2026-01-29 23:22   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-01-26  6:13 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: dsa: add dsa_mall_policer_tc_entry_type() helper David Yang
2026-01-26  6:13 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: dsa: ocelot: check policer entry David Yang
2026-01-29 11:20   ` Paolo Abeni

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