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SubjectRe: [tip:mm/pkeys] mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field
On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 02:50:06PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> A more workable method would be to have a test .c file that includes all UAPI
> structures in existence and defines a variable out of every single one, and then
> generates a list of sizeof() values or so. But even that isn't perfect: a
> structure might shift some fields forward, into a pre-existing hole, without
> changing the sizeof? We'd need a list of all field offsets in all structures to be
> really sure, and that's nasty.

pahole has such logic, right?

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