[05/38] stddef.h: Introduce sizeof_field()

Commit Message

Kees Cook Jan. 11, 2018, 2:02 a.m. UTC

The size of fields within a structure is needed in a few places in the
kernel already, and will be needed for the usercopy whitelisting when
declaring whitelist regions within structures. This creates a dedicated
macro and redefines offsetofend() to use it.

Existing usage, ignoring the 1200+ lustre assert uses:

$ git grep -E 'sizeof\(\(\((struct )?[a-zA-Z_]+ \*\)0\)->' | \
	grep -v staging/lustre | wc -l
65

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[e-mail]>
---
 include/linux/stddef.h | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/stddef.h b/include/linux/stddef.h
index 2181719fd907..998a4ba28eba 100644
--- a/include/linux/stddef.h
+++ b/include/linux/stddef.h
@@ -20,12 +20,20 @@  enum {
 #endif
 
 /**
+ * sizeof_field(TYPE, MEMBER)
+ *
+ * @TYPE: The structure containing the field of interest
+ * @MEMBER: The field to return the size of
+ */
+#define sizeof_field(TYPE, MEMBER) sizeof((((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER))
+
+/**
  * 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))
+	(offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER)	+ sizeof_field(TYPE, MEMBER))
 
 #endif