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Message-ID: <202209131033.EDED655DA4@keescook>
Date:   Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:34:21 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc:     Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh: machvec: Use char[] for section boundaries

On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 06:15:39PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 04:43:45PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > As done for other sections, define the extern as a character array,
> > which relaxes many of the compiler-time object size checks, which would
> > otherwise assume it's a single long. Solves the following build error:
> > 
> > arch/sh/kernel/machvec.c: error: array subscript 'struct sh_machine_vector[0]' is partly outside array bounds of 'long int[1]' [-Werror=array-bounds]:  => 105:33
> 
> LGMT. This is the approach I recommend for this general type of
> mechanism. So,
> 
> Acked-by: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
> 
> Since I haven't been on top of collating patches for upstreaming, I'd
> be happy if anyone else wants to take this in their tree before I get
> back to it.

Great; thanks! I'll take it via my tree. :)

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook

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