linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree

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Message-ID: <20220126160034.27815079@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:00:34 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Beau Belgrave <beaub@...ux.microsoft.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:41:38 -0800
Beau Belgrave <beaub@...ux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Right, and on the user side we will not know the start of the "data" /
> fixed offset without carrying back that information somehow, due to the
> common header size not being a fixed length forever.

Good point! The data is not exported to user space via the format files
like the __ref_loc field is, so there's no guarantee of knowing where data
is.

Let's leave it as is.

-- Steve