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From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:07:09 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sched: Fix memory exposure from short TCA_U32_SEL
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
        David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:03 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 02:31:41PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> > > I cant think of any challenges. Cong/Jiri? Would it require development
> > > time classifiers/actions/qdiscs to sit in that directory (I suspect you
> > > dont want them in include/net).
> > > BTW, the idea of improving grep-ability of the code by prefixing the
> > > ops appropriately makes sense. i.e we should have ops->cls_init,
> > > ops->act_init etc.
> >
> > Hmm? Isn't struct tcf_proto_ops used and must be provided
> > by each tc filter module? How does it work if you move it into
> > net/sched/* for out-of-tree modules? Are they supposed to
> > include "..../net/sched/tcf_proto.h"?? Or something else?
>
> If you care about out-of-tree modules, that could easily live in
> include/net/tcf_proto.h, provided that it's not pulled by indirect
> includes into hell knows how many places.  Try
> make allmodconfig
> make >/dev/null 2>&1
> find -name '.*.cmd'|xargs grep sch_generic.h
>
> That finds 2977 files here, most of them having nothing to do with
> net/sched.


Moving it to include/net/tcf_proto.h is fine, as out-of-tree modules
can still compile by modifying the included header path.

include/net/pkt_cls.h might be a choice here too.