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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, john.r.fastabend@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net_sched: sch_mqprio: dont leak kernel memory
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:04:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296111843.1783.130.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296108251.2448.183.camel@Joe-Laptop>

Le mercredi 26 janvier 2011 à 22:04 -0800, Joe Perches a écrit :

> /* MQPRIO */
> #define TC_QOPT_BITMASK 15
> #define TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE 16
> 
> struct tc_mqprio_qopt {
> __u8 num_tc;
> __u8 prio_tc_map[TC_QOPT_BITMASK + 1];
> __u8 hw;
> __u16 count[TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE];
> __u16 offset[TC_QOPT_MAX_QUEUE];
> };
> 
> I believe this struct needs to be declared __packed.
> 

Oh my god. Yet another ugly thing.

> It could otherwise be 24 bytes not 22.

22 ? You are kidding probably. Its 82 exactly.

Listen, I doubled check my patch, its good, while your rants are lazy.

> Or if char array declarations have a different
> alignment requirement, could be any size.
> 

If if if... could could could...


> memset is better than {0}.
> 

You never stop do you ?

The bigger object is u16, therefore alignof() is 2, not 4

No ABI requires a short (u16) is aligned on 4 byte boundary.

If you find a compiler not respecting this, you can bet linux wont run
at all if compiled with it. mqprio 'potential 2 bytes leak' will hardly
be a problem.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-27  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-26 17:21 [PATCH net-next-2.6] net_sched: sch_mqprio: dont leak kernel memory Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 17:43 ` Joe Perches
2011-01-26 17:49   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 17:56     ` Joe Perches
2011-01-26 19:56       ` David Miller
2011-01-27 11:17       ` Pádraig Brady
2011-01-26 19:55   ` David Miller
2011-01-26 20:23     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 20:25       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 21:24       ` Joe Perches
2011-01-26 21:28         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-26 21:33           ` Joe Perches
2011-01-27  6:04     ` Joe Perches
2011-01-27  6:54       ` Changli Gao
2011-01-27  7:04       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-01-26 21:15 ` David Miller

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