Re: [PATCH -vfs] proc: don't maintain sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry)

[Al Viro]

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:02:13PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Automatically cap sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry) at 192/128 bytes or
> 256/192 bytes if spinlock debugging/lockdep is enabled.

> --- a/fs/proc/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/proc/internal.h
> @@ -61,13 +61,15 @@ struct proc_dir_entry {
>  	char *name;
>  	umode_t mode;
>  	u8 namelen;
> +	char inline_name[];
> +} __randomize_layout;
> +

Hmm...  proc_root initialization relies upon a gccism after that...
Speaking of which, why the hell do we even bother with proc_root.name?