On May 22, 2023 4:02:06 PM PDT, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 02:39:28PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: >> In the future, we can add annotations for the flexible array member >> "encrypted_path" to have a size determined by the "len" member. > >That seems unlikely, as 'struct fscrypt_symlink_data' is an on-disk data >structure. The "len" field does not necessarily use CPU endianness, and before >being validated it might be greater than the size of the allocated space. Oh yes, good point. >I agree that it should use a flex array (and thanks for catching this one that I >had forgotten about...), but the above explanation seems wrong. Shall I spin a v2? -- Kees Cook