On Fri, 2025-12-05 at 16:18 +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> While compiling Linux kernel with DEPT on, the following error was
> observed:
> 
>    ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:1084:17: note: in expansion of macro
>    ‘BUILD_BUG_ON’
>    1084 | BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(typeof(*(ptr)), rhf) >= 4096);        \
>         | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>    ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:1047:29: note: in expansion of macro
>    'kvfree_rcu_arg_2'
>    1047 | #define kfree_rcu(ptr, rhf) kvfree_rcu_arg_2(ptr, rhf)
>         |                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>    net/sunrpc/xprt.c:1856:9: note: in expansion of macro 'kfree_rcu'
>    1856 | kfree_rcu(xprt, rcu);
>         | ^~~~~~~~~
>     CC net/kcm/kcmproc.o
>    make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:203: net/sunrpc/xprt.o] Error 1
> 
> Since kfree_rcu() assumes 'offset of struct rcu_head in a rcu-managed
> struct < 4096', the offest of struct rcu_head in struct rpc_xprt should
> not exceed 4096 but does, due to the debug information added by DEPT.
> 
> Relocate struct rcu_head to the first field of struct rpc_xprt from an
> arbitrary location to avoid the issue and meet the assumption.
> 
> Reported-by: Yunseong Kim <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <[email protected]>
> ---
>  include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
> index f46d1fb8f71a..666e42a17a31 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
> @@ -211,6 +211,14 @@ enum xprt_transports {
>  
>  struct rpc_sysfs_xprt;
>  struct rpc_xprt {
> +     /*
> +      * Place struct rcu_head within the first 4096 bytes of struct
> +      * rpc_xprt if sizeof(struct rpc_xprt) > 4096, so that
> +      * kfree_rcu() can simply work assuming that.  See the comment
> +      * in kfree_rcu().
> +      */
> +     struct rcu_head         rcu;
> +
>       struct kref             kref;           /* Reference count */
>       const struct rpc_xprt_ops *ops;         /* transport methods */
>       unsigned int            id;             /* transport id */
> @@ -317,7 +325,6 @@ struct rpc_xprt {
>  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG)
>       struct dentry           *debugfs;               /* debugfs directory */
>  #endif
> -     struct rcu_head         rcu;
>       const struct xprt_class *xprt_class;
>       struct rpc_sysfs_xprt   *xprt_sysfs;
>       bool                    main; /*mark if this is the 1st transport */

Seems fine to me.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>

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