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From: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
To: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], Keith Busch <[email protected]>,
	Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: don't randomized kiocb fields
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 11:35:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 03:56:33PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
>  struct kiocb {
>  	struct file		*ki_filp;
> -
> -	/* The 'ki_filp' pointer is shared in a union for aio */
> -	randomized_struct_fields_start
> -
>  	loff_t			ki_pos;
>  	void (*ki_complete)(struct kiocb *iocb, long ret);
>  	void			*private;
>  	int			ki_flags;
>  	u16			ki_ioprio; /* See linux/ioprio.h */
>  	struct wait_page_queue	*ki_waitq; /* for async buffered IO */
> -	randomized_struct_fields_end
>  };

Now that I've read the thread ...

If we care about struct size on 32-bit, we should fit something into
the 32-bit hole before the 64-bit loff_t (assuming at least some 32-bit
arches want loff_t to be 64-bit aligned; I thik x86 doesn't?)
Easiest seems to be to put ki_complete before ki_pos?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-14 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-12 22:56 [PATCH] fs: don't randomized kiocb fields Keith Busch
2022-08-12 23:00 ` Jens Axboe
2022-08-13  7:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-13 14:33   ` Jens Axboe
2022-08-14 10:35 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2022-08-15 14:49   ` Keith Busch

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