From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add kernel hardening keyword __counted_by_ptr
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:43:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <afNqiA087kjdT5zE@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260414130926.312094-3-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 03:09:28PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> In addition to __counted_by, __counted_by_le, and __counted_by_be, also
> match the keyword __counted_by_ptr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 1126fdd639ad..969460c85ad6 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -13889,7 +13889,7 @@ F: scripts/Makefile.randstruct
> F: security/Kconfig.hardening
> K: \b(add|choose)_random_kstack_offset\b
> K: \b__check_(object_size|heap_object)\b
> -K: \b__counted_by(_le|_be)?\b
> +K: \b__counted_by(_le|_be|_ptr)?\b
>
> KERNEL JANITORS
> L: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Could you give this another look so that __counted_by_ptr() patches are
also sent to linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org?
Thanks,
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-30 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-14 13:09 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add kernel hardening keyword __counted_by_ptr Thorsten Blum
2026-04-30 14:43 ` Thorsten Blum [this message]
2026-05-13 17:15 ` Kees Cook
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