On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 01:56:55PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 01:06:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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(a) why didn't this use the already existing and well-named macro
that nobody really had issues with?
That was suggested, but other folks wanted the more accurate "member"
instead of "field" since a treewide change was happening anyway:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2019/07/02/2
At the end of the day, I really don't care -- I just want to have _one_
macro. :)
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(b) I see no sign of the networking people having been asked about
their preferences.
Yeah, that's entirely true. Totally my mistake; it seemed like a trivial
enough change that I didn't want to bother too many people. But let's
fix that now... Dave, do you have any concerns about this change of
FIELD_SIZEOF() to sizeof_member() (or if it prevails, sizeof_field())?
David, can you weight in on this? Are you okay with a mass renaming of
FIELD_SIZEOF() to sizeof_member(), as the largest user of the old macro
is in networking?
Thanks!
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Kees Cook