Re: [PATCH 4/11] use ether_addr_equal_64bits

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Jan 06 2014 - 04:06:11 EST


On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 17:40 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:

> > If nothing else, then some run-time code that calculates the offset off
> > and asserts if it is broken in module initialization or similar might
> > be good enough.
>
> Could be OK. Something right in or after the structure declaration would
> be nicest.

I don't think you can put a BUILD_BUG_ON() into the structure
declaration (it's code, not declarations), but I think you could just
put

BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct foo) - offsetof(struct foo, addr) < 8);

with the user(s?) and that should catch the scenario I was worrying
about?

johannes


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