From: Logan B <mrbojangles3@gmail.com>
To: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Cc: xdp-newbies@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sizeof pointer vs sizeof struct
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:30:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFR4Citj2uBtzz9ffdOpFcLwq5H88fuwgn6yCg-vQahHxJNSRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24438.1709259030@famine>
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 9:10 PM Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Logan B <mrbojangles3@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >I was recently working through the xdp tutorial and in the
> >packet01-parsing lesson the sizeof a pointer to the ethernet header
> >struct is used, not the sizeof the struct itself[0]. I peeked and the
> >solution for this section also still uses the sizeof a pointer and not
> >the struct so this isn't part of the tutorial and I was wondering what
> >is going on? I don't think the verifier is re-writing these addresses,
> >only those for the memory access into the packet data.
>
> The referenced code at [0] is:
>
> struct ethhdr *eth = nh->pos;
> int hdrsize = sizeof(*eth);
>
> "*eth" means "what eth points to," so this is indeed taking the
> sizeof struct ethhdr.
>
> I suspect you missed the "*" in your reading of the code; in
> this context, "*" is the indirection operator, per K&R 2, (The C
> Programming Language, 2nd Edition), Appendix A 7.4.3.
>
> -J
>
I did miss that. Thank you
Logan
> >
> >#include <stdio.h>
> >#include <linux/if_ether.h>
> >
> >int main(void)
> >
> > {
> >
> > struct ethhdr normal = {0};
> > struct ethhdr *eth_hdr_ptr;
> >
> > printf("Size of struct %lu\n",sizeof(normal)); // prints 14
> > printf("Size of struct pointer %lu\n",sizeof(eth_hdr_ptr)); //
> >prints 8
> > return 0;
> >}
> >
> >
> >[0]https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tutorial/blob/master/packet01-parsing/xdp_prog_kern.c#L34
> >--
> >Logan
> >
>
> ---
> -Jay Vosburgh, jay.vosburgh@canonical.com
--
Logan
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2024-03-01 1:20 sizeof pointer vs sizeof struct Logan B
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