From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, "Jiri Pirko" <jiri@resnulli.us>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>,
Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@intel.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: Use flexible array for trailing private bytes
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 07:24:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240304072449.0c10b397@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae6b1114-1c71-46f0-82e5-23b9f05df1bf@intel.com>
On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 15:32:51 +0100 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > 100% I should have linked to the thread that led to Kees's work.
> > Adding directly to net_device would be way better but there's
> > a handful of drivers which embed the struct.
>
> I think it's okay to embed a struct with flex array at the end as long
> as it's not used? Or the compiler will say that the flex array is not at
> the end of the structure?
Technically, yes. Practically it ties the lifetime of a refcounted
object to something semi-related with different lifetime rules :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-04 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-29 21:30 [PATCH] netdev: Use flexible array for trailing private bytes Kees Cook
2024-02-29 22:15 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2024-03-01 6:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-01 8:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2024-03-01 12:58 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-03-01 13:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2024-03-01 14:30 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-03-01 17:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-04 14:32 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-03-04 15:24 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-03-01 11:41 ` Greg KH
2024-03-06 13:16 ` Breno Leitao
2024-03-06 15:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-03-06 23:42 ` Kees Cook
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