On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 7:31 AM, Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As evidenced by the previous two patches, having two gigantic arrays that > must manually be kept in sync, including ifdefs, isn't exactly robust. > To make it easier to catch such issues in the future, add a BUILD_BUG_ON(). > > Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -Kees > --- > mm/vmstat.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c > index 7878da76abf2..b678c607e490 100644 > --- a/mm/vmstat.c > +++ b/mm/vmstat.c > @@ -1663,6 +1663,8 @@ static void *vmstat_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos) > stat_items_size += sizeof(struct vm_event_state); > #endif > > + BUILD_BUG_ON(stat_items_size != > + ARRAY_SIZE(vmstat_text) * sizeof(unsigned long)); > v = kmalloc(stat_items_size, GFP_KERNEL); > m->private = v; > if (!v) > -- > 2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog > -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
