linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] key: Convert big

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Date:   Mon, 08 May 2017 23:00:56 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] key: Convert big_key payload.data to struct

Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:

> There is a lot of needless casting happening in the big_key data payload.
> This is harder to trivially verify by static analysis and specifically
> the randstruct GCC plugin (which was unhappy about casting a struct
> path across two entries of a void * array). This converts the payload to
> the actually used structures (one pointer, one embedded struct, and one
> size_t).

I'd really rather not do this as this moves the definition of an individual
key type into the general structure (I know I've done this for the keyring
type, but that's a special part of the keyring code).  That's the start of the
slippery slope into moving all of them in there.

I'd rather you defined, say:

	struct big_key_payload {
		u8		*key_data;
		struct path	key_path;
		size_t		key_len;
	};

in big_key.c and cast &key->payload to it.

David