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Re: [PATCH] xfs: check sizes of XFS on-disk structures at compile time

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: check sizes of XFS on-disk structures at compile time
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:05:56 -0800
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:25:26PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 1/11/16 5:26 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
> > index 36bd882..31b69d1 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
> > @@ -1812,11 +1812,56 @@ xfs_destroy_workqueues(void)
> >     destroy_workqueue(xfs_alloc_wq);
> >  }
> >  
> > +static void __init
> > +xfs_check_ondisk_structs(void)
> > +{
> > +   /* on-disk structures */
> > +   XFS_CHECK_STRUCT_SIZE(struct xfs_dsb,                   264);
> > +   XFS_CHECK_STRUCT_SIZE(struct xfs_agf,                   224);
> > +   XFS_CHECK_STRUCT_SIZE(struct xfs_agi,                   336);
> > +   XFS_CHECK_STRUCT_SIZE(struct xfs_agfl,                  36);
> > +   XFS_CHECK_STRUCT_SIZE(struct xfs_timestamp,             8);
> > +   XFS_CHECK_STRUCT_SIZE(struct xfs_dinode,                176);
> 
> I'm not sure why, but all this hard-coded stuff in the codebase bugs me.
> 
> What if we did it as part of the build, but outside the code, something
> like (pardon my bad Make-fu):
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/Makefile b/fs/xfs/Makefile
> index f646391..da9ec6d 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/Makefile
> +++ b/fs/xfs/Makefile
> @@ -122,3 +122,8 @@ xfs-$(CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL) += xfs_acl.o
>  xfs-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL)           += xfs_sysctl.o
>  xfs-$(CONFIG_COMPAT)           += xfs_ioctl32.o
>  xfs-$(CONFIG_NFSD_PNFS)                += xfs_pnfs.o
> +
> +check_structures: $(obj)/xfs.o
> +       $(src)/scripts/check_structures.sh $(obj)/xfs.o
> +
> +$(obj)/built-in.o: check_structures
> 
> where the script executes pahole or whatever we want, to check the
> structure sizes and possibly even alignment explicitly?  Presumably
> we could make running the check a Kconfig option as well...

We certainly /could/ do that, but now the build depends on pahole or whatever
being installed, whereas this macroey doesn't add more tool dependencies.
I think between this and xfs/122 we're probably fine?

--D

> 
> similar tricks could surely be done for userspace as well.
> 
> -Eric
> 
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