Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH 60/60] staging: lustre: libcfs: fix minimum size check for libcfs ioctl

From: Olaf Weber
Date: Wed Feb 01 2017 - 08:41:10 EST


On 31-01-17 03:25, James Simmons wrote:

[...]

Also I'm uncomfortable with:

data = container_of(hdr, struct libcfs_ioctl_data, ioc_hdr);

If hdr isn't the first member of the struct then the code is broken but
container_of() implies that that isn't a hard requirement. It should
just be:

data = (struct libcfs_ioctl_data *)hdr;

Don't know if hdr being first is a hard requirment. Doug, Amir do you know
if it is an requirement?

It's a requirement.

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