Re: [PATCH v2] wireguard: Add __nonstring annotations for unterminated strings

["Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>]

Hi Kees,

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 01:14:51PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> When a character array without a terminating NUL character has a static
> initializer, GCC 15's -Wunterminated-string-initialization will only
> warn if the array lacks the "nonstring" attribute[1]. Mark the arrays
> with __nonstring to correctly identify the char array as "not a C string"
> and thereby eliminate the warning:
> 
> ../drivers/net/wireguard/cookie.c:29:56: warning: initializer-string for array of 'unsigned char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (9 chars into 8 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
>    29 | static const u8 mac1_key_label[COOKIE_KEY_LABEL_LEN] = "mac1----";
>       |                                                        ^~~~~~~~~~
> ../drivers/net/wireguard/cookie.c:30:58: warning: initializer-string for array of 'unsigned char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (9 chars into 8 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
>    30 | static const u8 cookie_key_label[COOKIE_KEY_LABEL_LEN] = "cookie--";
>       |                                                          ^~~~~~~~~~
> ../drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:28:38: warning: initializer-string for array of 'unsigned char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (38 chars into 37 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
>    28 | static const u8 handshake_name[37] = "Noise_IKpsk2_25519_ChaChaPoly_BLAKE2s";
>       |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:29:39: warning: initializer-string for array of 'unsigned char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (35 chars into 34 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
>    29 | static const u8 identifier_name[34] = "WireGuard v1 zx2c4 Jason@zx2c4.com";
>       |                                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> The arrays are always used with their fixed size, so use __nonstring.
> 

Applied. Thanks for the patch.

Jason