linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rust: kernel: drop repetition in offset

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:57:21 +0100
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
Cc:     Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
        rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
        Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
        Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: kernel: drop repetition in offset_of macro

On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 12:30 AM Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> What will be  even better is someone please contribute such a macro to
> libcore so that I don't have to replicate the code snippet everywhere.
> :-)

It is happening! :-) See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3308,
currently at the end of the FCP ("final comment period"), i.e. the RFC
is likely getting accepted soon.

We track it at https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/514 (one
of the sub-lists in issue #2).

Cheers,
Miguel