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Message-ID: <202111191015.509A0BD@keescook>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 10:26:19 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] skbuff: Switch structure bounds to struct_group()
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:13:55PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:36:15 -0800 Kees Cook wrote:
> > In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
> > field bounds checking for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset(), avoid
> > intentionally writing across neighboring fields.
> >
> > Replace the existing empty member position markers "headers_start" and
> > "headers_end" with a struct_group(). This will allow memcpy() and sizeof()
> > to more easily reason about sizes, and improve readability.
> >
> > "pahole" shows no size nor member offset changes to struct sk_buff.
> > "objdump -d" shows no object code changes (outside of WARNs affected by
> > source line number changes).
>
> This adds ~27k of these warnings to W=1 gcc builds:
>
> include/linux/skbuff.h:851:1: warning: directive in macro's argument list
Hrm, I can't reproduce this, using several GCC versions and net-next. What
compiler version[1] and base commit[2] were used here?
-Kees
[1] https://github.com/kuba-moo/nipa/pull/10
[2] https://github.com/kuba-moo/nipa/pull/11
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Kees Cook
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