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Remove the hidden assumption that options are allocated at the end of
the struct, and teach the compiler about them using a flexible array.
With this, we can revert the unsafe_memcpy() call we have in
tun_dst_unclone() [1], and resolve the false field-spanning write
warning caused by the memcpy() in ip_tunnel_info_opts_set().
The layout of struct ip_tunnel_info remains the same with this patch.
Before this patch, there was an implicit padding at the end of the
struct, options would be written at 'info + 1' which is after the
padding.
This will remain the same as this patch explicitly aligns 'options'.
The alignment is needed as the options are later casted to different
structs, and might result in unaligned memory access.
Pahole output before this patch:
struct ip_tunnel_info {
struct ip_tunnel_key key; /* 0 64 */
/* XXX last struct has 1 byte of padding */
/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
struct ip_tunnel_encap encap; /* 64 8 */
struct dst_cache dst_cache; /* 72 16 */
u8 options_len; /* 88 1 */
u8 mode; /* 89 1 */
/* size: 96, cachelines: 2, members: 5 */
/* padding: 6 */
/* paddings: 1, sum paddings: 1 */
/* last cacheline: 32 bytes */
};
Pahole output after this patch:
struct ip_tunnel_info {
struct ip_tunnel_key key; /* 0 64 */
/* XXX last struct has 1 byte of padding */
/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
struct ip_tunnel_encap encap; /* 64 8 */
struct dst_cache dst_cache; /* 72 16 */
u8 options_len; /* 88 1 */
u8 mode; /* 89 1 */
/* XXX 6 bytes hole, try to pack */
u8 options[] __attribute__((__aligned__(16))); /* 96 0 */
/* size: 96, cachelines: 2, members: 6 */
/* sum members: 90, holes: 1, sum holes: 6 */
/* paddings: 1, sum paddings: 1 */
/* forced alignments: 1, forced holes: 1, sum forced holes: 6 */
/* last cacheline: 32 bytes */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(16)));
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