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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:04:21 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Annotate arguments of memtostr/strtomem with
 __nonstring


Kees,

> The memtostr*() and strtomem*() helpers are designed to move between C
> strings (NUL-terminated) and byte arrays (that may just be zero padded
> and may not be NUL-terminated). The "nonstring" attribute is used to
> annotated these kinds of byte arrays, and we can validate the
> annotation on the arguments of the helpers. Add the the infrastructure
> to do this, and then update all the places where these annotations are
> currently missing.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com> # SCSI

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering