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Before commit d67790ddf021 ("overflow: Add struct_size_t() helper") only
struct_size() existed, which expects a valid pointer instance containing
the flexible array.
However, when we determine the default struct pid allocation size for
the associated kmem cache of a pid namespace we need to take the nesting
depth of the pid namespace into account without an variable instance
necessarily being available.
In commit b69f0aeb0689 ("pid: Replace struct pid 1-element array with
flex-array") we used to handle this the old fashioned way and cast NULL
to a struct pid pointer type. However, we do apparently have a dedicated
struct_size_t() helper for exactly this case. So switch to that.
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.