netdev - RE: [PATCH v1 net-next] net: Use sockaddr_storage for getsockopt(SO

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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:50:46 -0400
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>, 
 Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, 
 Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>, 
 Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>, 
 netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH v1 net-next] net: Use sockaddr_storage for
 getsockopt(SO_PEERNAME).

Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> Commit df8fc4e934c1 ("kbuild: Enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3") started
> applying strict rules to standard string functions.
> 
> It does not work well with conventional socket code around each protocol-
> specific struct sockaddr_XXX, which is cast from sockaddr_storage and has
> a bigger size than fortified functions expect.  (See Link)
> 
> We must cast the protocol-specific address back to sockaddr_storage
> to call such functions.
> 
> However, in the case of getsockaddr(SO_PEERNAME), the rationale is a bit
> unclear as the buffer is defined by char[128] which is the same size as
> sockaddr_storage.
> 
> Let's use sockaddr_storage implicitly.

explicitly

> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230720004410.87588-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/
> Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>