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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Crash in VirtualBox virtual machines running kernel 6.5
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 08:36:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202307190835.752D710D@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202307190823.086EFD42D9@keescook>

Okay, please try:

diff --git a/fs/vboxsf/shfl_hostintf.h b/fs/vboxsf/shfl_hostintf.h
index aca829062c12..902fe3224453 100644
--- a/fs/vboxsf/shfl_hostintf.h
+++ b/fs/vboxsf/shfl_hostintf.h
@@ -68,12 +68,11 @@ struct shfl_string {
 
 	/** UTF-8 or UTF-16 string. Nul terminated. */
 	union {
-		u8 utf8[2];
-		u16 utf16[1];
-		u16 ucs2[1]; /* misnomer, use utf16. */
+		DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(u8, utf8);
+		DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(u16, utf16);
 	} string;
 };
-VMMDEV_ASSERT_SIZE(shfl_string, 6);
+VMMDEV_ASSERT_SIZE(shfl_string, 4);
 
 /* The size of shfl_string w/o the string part. */
 #define SHFLSTRING_HEADER_SIZE  4


The size assert doesn't seem to be used anywhere else, but I can do a
more careful binary analysis later today...

-- 
Kees Cook

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-19 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-19 15:02 Crash in VirtualBox virtual machines running kernel 6.5 Larry Finger
2023-07-19 15:31 ` Kees Cook
2023-07-19 15:34   ` Kees Cook
2023-07-19 15:36   ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-07-19 21:24     ` Larry Finger
2023-07-19 22:37       ` Kees Cook
2023-07-20 14:51         ` Larry Finger

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