On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 06:23:06PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > 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? Yes, please go ahead. - Eric