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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/uapi/linux/wireless.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h b/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h index 86eca3208b6b..f259cca5cc2b 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h @@ -1090,8 +1090,7 @@ 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: 1875ff320f14afe21731a6e4c7b46dd33e45dfaa -- 2.24.0.393.g34dc348eaf-goog