linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] wireless: Use offsetof instead of custom macro.

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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdnLxXeGYfEL+fgVts3cW71gMsP42mysQYtKse_STUErzQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Dec 2019 09:02:30 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:CLANG/LLVM BUILD SUPPORT" 
        <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] wireless: Use offsetof instead of custom macro.

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:13 AM Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@...omium.org> 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:
>
> ==================================================================
> UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in net/wireless/wext-core.c:525:14
> member access within null pointer of type 'struct iw_point'
> CPU: 3 PID: 165 Comm: kworker/u16:3 Tainted: G S      W         4.19.23 #43
> Workqueue: cfg80211 __cfg80211_scan_done [cfg80211]
> Call trace:
>  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x194
>  show_stack+0x20/0x2c
>  __dump_stack+0x20/0x28
>  dump_stack+0x70/0x94
>  ubsan_epilogue+0x14/0x44
>  ubsan_type_mismatch_common+0xf4/0xfc
>  __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch_v1+0x34/0x54
>  wireless_send_event+0x3cc/0x470
>  ___cfg80211_scan_done+0x13c/0x220 [cfg80211]
>  __cfg80211_scan_done+0x28/0x34 [cfg80211]
>  process_one_work+0x170/0x35c
>  worker_thread+0x254/0x380
>  kthread+0x13c/0x158
>  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> ===================================================================
>
> Signed-off-by: Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@...omium.org>
> ---
>
> Change since v1:
>  * Add #include <stddef.h>

Thanks for following up on the feedback.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/wireless.h | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h b/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h
> index 86eca3208b6b..a2c006a364e0 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h
> @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@
>  #include <linux/socket.h>              /* for "struct sockaddr" et al  */
>  #include <linux/if.h>                  /* for IFNAMSIZ and co... */
>
> +#include <stddef.h>                     /* for offsetof */
> +
>  /***************************** VERSION *****************************/
>  /*
>   * This constant is used to know the availability of the wireless
> @@ -1090,8 +1092,7 @@ 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)
>
>
> base-commit: c5db92909beddadddb705b92d3388ea50b01e1a2
> --
> 2.24.0.393.g34dc348eaf-goog
>
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-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers