Re: [PATCH] fs: Set file_handle::handle_bytes before referencing file_handle::f_handle

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On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 11:19:00AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 03-04-24 14:54:03, Kees Cook wrote:
> > With adding __counted_by(handle_bytes) to struct file_handle, we need
> > to explicitly set it in the one place it wasn't yet happening prior to
> > accessing the flex array "f_handle".
> > 
> > Fixes: 1b43c4629756 ("fs: Annotate struct file_handle with __counted_by() and use struct_size()")
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> OK, so this isn't really a functional bug AFAIU but the compiler will
> wrongly complain we are accessing handle->f_handle beyond claimed array
> size (because handle->handle_bytes == 0 at that point). Am I right? If

And really, this also needs to please be mentioned in the commit message
because from reading the commit message I'm not even sure what this
patch is trying to fix.




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