linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] thermal: core: Move initial num

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:00:44 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, rui.zhang@...el.com,
	lukasz.luba@....com, gustavoars@...nel.org, morbo@...gle.com,
	justinstitt@...gle.com, stanislaw.gruszka@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	llvm@...ts.linux.dev, patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: core: Move initial num_trips assignment before
 memcpy()

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 05:47:44PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Ok my misunderstanding was I thought sizeof() was calling _bdos under the
> hood, so when calling sizeof(flex_array), it was returning the computed size
> inferring from the __counted_by field.

Yeah, sizeof() has a very limited scope. __builtin_object_size() has
more flexibility (via the 2nd argument, "type"), but it was still
compile-time only. __builtin_dynamic_object_size() was added to bring
runtime evaluations into the mix (initially to support the alloc_size
attribute, and now includes the counted_by attribute too).

-- 
Kees Cook