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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2-member sized buffer structs struct_size()
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:18:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202310101614.AA6B7C4@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202310101552.3578F46@keescook>

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 03:53:28PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> It's surprising how many of these 2-member structs we have in the kernel
> that do the same basic thing. :)

75. We have 75 of them:

// Options: --all-includes

@sized_byte_buffer@
identifier NAME, SIZE, ARRAY;
typedef s8, s16, s32, s64;
typedef __s8, __s16, __s32, __s64;
typedef u8, u16, u32, u64;
typedef __u8, __u16, __u32, __u64;
type SIZE_TYPE = {char, short, int, long, long long, ssize_t,
 s8, s16, s32, s64, __s8, __s16, __s32, __s64,
 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long, unsigned long long, size_t,
 u8, u16, u32, u64, __u8, __u16, __u32, __u64};
type BYTE_TYPE = {char, unsigned char, u8, __u8};
@@

*struct NAME {
        SIZE_TYPE SIZE;
        BYTE_TYPE ARRAY[];
 };


https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/39CyK9nyqX/

Agh

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-10 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-10 12:59 [PATCH][next] afs: Add __counted_by for struct afs_acl and use struct_size() Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-10-10 22:53 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-10 23:18   ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-11-30 22:00 ` Kees Cook

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