This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
include/stddef.h: Move offsetofend() from vfio.h to a generic kernel header
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
include-stddef.h-move-offsetofend-from-vfio.h-to-a-generic-kernel-header.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3876488444e71238e287459c39d7692b6f718c3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:52:17 +0100
Subject: include/stddef.h: Move offsetofend() from vfio.h to a generic kernel header
From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3876488444e71238e287459c39d7692b6f718c3e upstream.
Suggested by Andy.
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425912738-559-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/stddef.h | 9 +++++++++
include/linux/vfio.h | 13 -------------
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/stddef.h
+++ b/include/linux/stddef.h
@@ -19,3 +19,12 @@ enum {
#define offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER) ((size_t) &((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER)
#endif
#endif
+
+/**
+ * offsetofend(TYPE, MEMBER)
+ *
+ * @TYPE: The type of the structure
+ * @MEMBER: The member within the structure to get the end offset of
+ */
+#define offsetofend(TYPE, MEMBER) \
+ (offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER) + sizeof(((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER))
--- a/include/linux/vfio.h
+++ b/include/linux/vfio.h
@@ -76,19 +76,6 @@ extern int vfio_register_iommu_driver(co
extern void vfio_unregister_iommu_driver(
const struct vfio_iommu_driver_ops *ops);
-/**
- * offsetofend(TYPE, MEMBER)
- *
- * @TYPE: The type of the structure
- * @MEMBER: The member within the structure to get the end offset of
- *
- * Simple helper macro for dealing with variable sized structures passed
- * from user space. This allows us to easily determine if the provided
- * structure is sized to include various fields.
- */
-#define offsetofend(TYPE, MEMBER) \
- (offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER) + sizeof(((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER))
-
/*
* External user API
*/
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/stddef.h-move-offsetofend-inside-ifndef-endif-guard-neaten.patch
queue-3.18/include-stddef.h-move-offsetofend-from-vfio.h-to-a-generic-kernel-header.patch