netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] virtchnl: fix fake 1-elem arrays for structures allocated as `nents`

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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 01:30:09 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@...el.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] virtchnl: fix fake 1-elem arrays for
 structures allocated as `nents`

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 05:52:07PM +0200, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> Finally, fix 3 structures which are allocated technically correctly,
> i.e. the calculated size equals to the one that struct_size() would
> return, except for sizeof(). For &virtchnl_vlan_filter_list_v2, use
> the same approach when there are no enough space as taken previously
> for &virtchnl_vlan_filter_list, i.e. let the maximum size be calculated
> automatically instead of trying to guestimate it using maths.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>

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

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Kees Cook