Re: [PATCH] crypto: Annotate crypto strings with nonstring

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 10:31:17AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Annotate various keys, ivs, and other byte arrays with __nonstring so
> that static initializers will not complain about truncating the trailing
> NUL byte under GCC 15 with -Wunterminated-string-initialization enabled.
> Silences many warnings like:
> 
> ../lib/crypto/aesgcm.c:642:27: warning: initializer-string for array of 'unsigned char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (13 chars into 12 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
>   642 |                 .iv     = "\xca\xfe\xba\xbe\xfa\xce\xdb\xad"
>       |                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
> ---
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
> ---
>  lib/crypto/aescfb.c |  8 ++++----
>  lib/crypto/aesgcm.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git/log/?h=libcrypto-fixes

Thanks!

- Eric