Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v5.9-rc6

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:37:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Applying sizeof() to a structure containing a flex-array member is allowed,
> 
> Yes, and that's wrong and inconsistent, but what else is new about the
> C standard. It's what allows these kinds of bugs to slip through.

Hmm.  We actually do that in our implementation of struct_size()

#define struct_size(p, member, count)                                   \
        __ab_c_size(count,                                              \
                    sizeof(*(p)->member) + __must_be_array((p)->member),\
                    sizeof(*(p)))

I suppose it's not really necessary, we could do offsetof here, right?

#define struct_size(p, member, count)                                   \
        __ab_c_size(count,                                              \
                    sizeof(*(p)->member) + __must_be_array((p)->member),\
                    offsetof(typeof(*(p)), member))