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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Pintu Agarwal <pintu.ping@gmail.com>,
	Pintu Kumar <quic_pintu@quicinc.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, legion@kernel.org,
	sashal@kernel.org, chris.hyser@oracle.com, ccross@google.com,
	pcc@google.com, dave@stgolabs.net, caoxiaofeng@yulong.com,
	david@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysinfo: include availram field in sysinfo struct
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 22:51:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YdiZ1BZ7gyMaJQCz@grain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220107120451.z2eqru2tm5mlhla3@wittgenstein>

On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:04:51PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > 
> > Wait. The userspace may pass old structure here, and in result we
> > return incorrect layout which won't match old one, no? Old binary
> > code has no clue about this header update.
> 
> Yes, that won't work as done.
> 

Yup. When I've been developing struct prctl_mm_map I reserved
PR_SET_MM_MAP_SIZE opcode so userspace would be able to query
current structure size and provide memory slab needed to fit
running structure.

As far as I see we can cut off some space from padding (at the
end of the structure) though one need to make a precise check
that there is no alignment holes appear on different architectures
other than x86. This area is pretty sensitive.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-07 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-06 15:34 Pintu Kumar
2022-01-06 16:11 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2022-01-06 16:49   ` Pintu Agarwal
2022-01-06 17:27     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2022-01-07 12:04       ` Christian Brauner
2022-01-07 13:44         ` Pintu Agarwal
2022-01-07 16:58           ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-01-07 17:47             ` Pintu Agarwal
2022-01-07 22:18             ` David Laight
2022-01-07 19:51         ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2022-01-06 17:41     ` David Laight
2022-01-06 17:59       ` Pintu Agarwal
2022-01-06 19:20         ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-07 18:07 ` [PATCH v2] " Pintu Kumar
2022-01-07 21:01   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2022-01-08 16:24     ` Pintu Agarwal
2022-01-10  8:11       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2022-01-07 22:22   ` David Laight
2022-01-08 16:53     ` Pintu Agarwal
2022-01-08 22:35       ` David Laight
2022-01-10 14:55         ` Pintu Agarwal

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