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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/26] net: add a new sockptr_t type
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:40:49 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.77.849.2007231725090.11202@n3.vanv.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200723060908.50081-5-hch@lst.de>


On Thursday 2020-07-23 08:08, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>+typedef struct {
>+	union {
>+		void		*kernel;
>+		void __user	*user;
>+	};
>+	bool		is_kernel : 1;
>+} sockptr_t;
>+
>+static inline bool sockptr_is_null(sockptr_t sockptr)
>+{
>+	return !sockptr.user && !sockptr.kernel;
>+}

"""If the member used to access the contents of a union is not the same as the
member last used to store a value, the object representation of the value that
was stored is reinterpreted as an object representation of the new type (this
is known as type punning). If the size of the new type is larger than the size
of the last-written type, the contents of the excess bytes are unspecified (and
may be a trap representation)"""

As I am not too versed with the consequences of trap representations, I will
just point out that a future revision of the C standard may introduce (proposal
N2362) stronger C++-like requirements; as for union, that would imply a simple:

"""It's undefined behavior to read from the member of the union that wasn't
most recently written.""" [cppreference.com]


So, in the spirit of copy_from/to_sockptr, the is_null function should read

{
	return sockptr.is_kernel ? !sockptr.user : !sockptr.kernel;
}


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-23 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-23  6:08 get rid of the address_space override in setsockopt v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 01/26] bpfilter: fix up a sparse annotation Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 11:14   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 02/26] net/bpfilter: split __bpfilter_process_sockopt Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 03/26] bpfilter: reject kernel addresses Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 14:42   ` David Laight
2020-07-23 14:44     ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2020-07-23 14:56       ` David Laight
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 04/26] net: add a new sockptr_t type Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 15:40   ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2020-07-23 16:40   ` Eric Dumazet
2020-07-23 16:44     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 05/26] net: switch copy_bpf_fprog_from_user to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 06/26] net: switch sock_setbindtodevice " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 07/26] net: switch sock_set_timeout " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 08/26] " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  8:39   ` [MPTCP] " Matthieu Baerts
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 09/26] net/xfrm: switch xfrm_user_policy " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 10/26] netfilter: remove the unused user argument to do_update_counters Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 11/26] netfilter: switch xt_copy_counters to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 12/26] netfilter: switch nf_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 15:03   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-27 15:06     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 16:16       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-27 16:23         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28  8:07           ` David Laight
2020-07-28  8:17             ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-27 16:16     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 16:21       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 13/26] bpfilter: switch bpfilter_ip_set_sockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 11:16   ` David Laight
2020-07-23 11:44     ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 14/26] net/ipv4: switch ip_mroute_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 15/26] net/ipv4: merge ip_options_get and ip_options_get_from_user Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 16/26] net/ipv4: switch do_ip_setsockopt to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:08 ` [PATCH 17/26] net/ipv6: switch ip6_mroute_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 18/26] net/ipv6: split up ipv6_flowlabel_opt Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 19/26] net/ipv6: switch ipv6_flowlabel_opt to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 12:15   ` Ido Schimmel
2020-07-27 13:00     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 13:33       ` Ido Schimmel
2020-07-27 16:15         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 18:22           ` Ido Schimmel
2020-07-27 13:24     ` David Laight
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 20/26] net/ipv6: factor out a ipv6_set_opt_hdr helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 21/26] net/ipv6: switch do_ipv6_setsockopt to sockptr_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 22/26] net/udp: switch udp_lib_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 23/26] net/tcp: switch ->md5_parse " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 24/26] net/tcp: switch do_tcp_setsockopt " Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 25/26] net: pass a sockptr_t into ->setsockopt Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  8:39   ` [MPTCP] " Matthieu Baerts
2020-08-06 22:21   ` Eric Dumazet
2020-08-07  7:21     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-07  9:18     ` David Laight
2020-08-07 18:29       ` Eric Dumazet
2020-08-08 13:54         ` David Laight
2020-07-23  6:09 ` [PATCH 26/26] net: optimize the sockptr_t for unified kernel/user address spaces Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-24 22:43 ` get rid of the address_space override in setsockopt v2 David Miller
2020-07-26  7:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-26  7:08     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-07-26  7:46     ` David Miller
2020-07-27  9:51   ` David Laight
2020-07-27 13:48     ` Al Viro
2020-07-27 14:09       ` David Laight

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