Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Introduce compile time structure size check

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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 02:19:07PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> Introduce a new macro based compile time check for ioctl structures.
> 
> The new macro is BTRFS_ASSERT_SIZE(), which is mostly copied from
> VMMDEV_ASSERT_SIZE().

The macro should be generic, there's nothing specific to btrfs. There's
a similar one in the progs.

> Such check is only added to structure pended to power of 2.

There's no constraint about power of 2 sizes, it works for any size.

> And exposed one structure, btrfs_ioctl_get_dev_stats() is not aligned
> well.
> The misalign is introduced by commit b27f7c0c150f ("btrfs: join DEV_STATS
> ioctls to one").

Yeah, that was an oversight, so the correct value to check against is
1024 + 8 = 1032, see ioctl.h in progs.
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