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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] atags_proc: Add __counted_by for struct buffer and use struct_size()
Date: Sat,  2 Dec 2023 12:32:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <170154914064.179444.11376018592445133931.b4-ty@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZSVHurzo/4aFQcT3@work>

On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:46:50 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the __counted_by
> attribute. Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by can have
> their accesses bounds-checked at run-time via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS (for
> array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for strcpy/memcpy-family
> functions).
> 
> While there, use struct_size() helper, instead of the open-coded
> version, to calculate the size for the allocation of the whole
> flexible structure, including of course, the flexible-array member.
> 
> [...]

Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!

[1/1] atags_proc: Add __counted_by for struct buffer and use struct_size()
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/ac7110d883ff

Take care,

-- 
Kees Cook


      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-02 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-10 12:46 [PATCH][next] atags_proc: Add __counted_by for struct buffer and use struct_size() Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-10-10 17:58 ` Justin Stitt
2023-10-10 23:09 ` Kees Cook
2023-12-02 20:32 ` Kees Cook [this message]

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