Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/122] 5.10.211-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-02-28T06:06:41Z

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 08:59:36AM +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote on Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 02:26:01PM +0100:
> > Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > net: dev: Convert sa_data to flexible array in struct sockaddr
> > (ca13c2b1e9e4b5d982c2f1e75f28b1586e5c0f7f in this tree,
> > b5f0de6df6dce8d641ef58ef7012f3304dffb9a1 upstream)
>
> This commit breaks build of some 3rd party wireless module we use here
> (because sizeof(sa->sa_data) no longer works and needs to use
> sa_data_min)
> With that said I guess it really is a dependency on the arp_req_get
> overflow, so probably necessary evil, and I don't think we explicitly
> pretend to preserve APIs for 3rd party modules so this is probably
> fine... The new warnings that poped up (and were reported in other
> messages) a probably worth checking though.

We NEVER preserve in-kernel APIs for any out-of-tree code as obviously,
we have no idea what out-of-tree code is actually using, so it would be
impossible to do so.

Also, it's odd that a driver is hit by this as no in-kernel driver was,
so perhaps it's using the wrong api to start with :)

thanks,

greg k-h