The trace_marker_raw file in tracefs takes a buffer from user space that
contains an id as well as a raw data string which is usually a binary
structure. The structure used has the following:
struct raw_data_entry {
struct trace_entry ent;
unsigned int id;
char buf[];
};
Since the passed in "cnt" variable is both the size of buf as well as the
size of id, the code to allocate the location on the ring buffer had:
size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id));
Which is quite ugly and hard to understand. Instead, add a helper macro
called struct_offset() which then changes the above to a simple and easy
to understand:
size = struct_offset(entry, id) + cnt;
This will likely come in handy for other use cases too.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whYZVoEdfO1PmtbirPdBMTV9Nxt9f09CK0k6S+HJD3Zmg@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251126145249.05b1770a@gandalf.local.home
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
#define struct_size_t(type, member, count) \
struct_size((type *)NULL, member, count)
+/**
+ * struct_offset() - Calculate the offset of a member within a struct
+ * @p: Pointer to the struct
+ * @member: Name of the member to get the offset of
+ *
+ * Calculates the offset of a particular @member of the structure pointed
+ * to by @p.
+ *
+ * Return: number of bytes to the location of @member.
+ */
+#define struct_offset(p, member) (offsetof(typeof(*(p)), member))
+
/**
* __DEFINE_FLEX() - helper macro for DEFINE_FLEX() family.
* Enables caller macro to pass arbitrary trailing expressions
size_t size;
/* cnt includes both the entry->id and the data behind it. */
- size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id));
+ size = struct_offset(entry, id) + cnt;
buffer = tr->array_buffer.buffer;