Re: [PATCH RESEND] wireless: Use offsetof instead of custom macro.

[Pi-Hsun Shih]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:54 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 11:39 +0800, Pi-Hsun Shih wrote:
> > Use offsetof to calculate offset of a field to take advantage of
> > compiler built-in version when possible, and avoid UBSAN warning when
> > compiling with Clang:
> []
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h b/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h
> []
> > @@ -1090,8 +1090,7 @@ struct iw_event {
> >  /* iw_point events are special. First, the payload (extra data) come at
> >   * the end of the event, so they are bigger than IW_EV_POINT_LEN. Second,
> >   * we omit the pointer, so start at an offset. */
> > -#define IW_EV_POINT_OFF (((char *) &(((struct iw_point *) NULL)->length)) - \
> > -                       (char *) NULL)
> > +#define IW_EV_POINT_OFF offsetof(struct iw_point, length)
> >  #define IW_EV_POINT_LEN      (IW_EV_LCP_LEN + sizeof(struct iw_point) - \
> >                        IW_EV_POINT_OFF)
>
> This is uapi.  Is offsetof guaranteed to be available?

offsetof is already used in other uapi headers
(include/uapi/linux/fuse.h FUSE_NAME_OFFSET).

Also offsetof is also defined back in C89 standard (in stddef.h), so
it should be widely available and should be fine to use here?
(Should I add a #ifndef __KERNEL__ #include <stddef.h> to the file?)

>
> Perhaps this is better without using another macro
>
> #define IW_EV_POINT_OFF ((size_t)&((struct iw_point *)NULL)->length)

Clang UBSAN would still complain about this, since it's the same
pattern as the original one.

>