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Message-ID: <202310091259.1D9E73DAE@keescook>
Date:   Mon, 9 Oct 2023 12:59:58 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: rockchip: Use struct_size()

On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 09:44:04AM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Use struct_size() instead of hand writing it.
> This is less verbose and more robust.
> 
> While at it, prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the
> __counted_by attribute. Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by
> can have their accesses bounds-checked at run-time checking via
> CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS (for array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for
> strcpy/memcpy-family functions).
> 
> Also remove a useless comment about the position of a flex-array in a
> structure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>

It seems the consensus is to keep the struct_size() changes together
with the __counted_by annotation, so yes, this looks correct to me:

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook

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