On 2026-01-12 12:53:11, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Add the __counted_by() compiler attribute to the flexible array member
> 'data' to improve access bounds-checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and
> CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>

Nice! I wasn't aware of this attribute. I'm surprised it isn't
documented under Documentation/.

Acked-by: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>

Thank you!

Tyler

> ---
>  fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h b/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
> index 62a2ea7f59ed..f58b12be8267 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ struct ecryptfs_message {
>       /* Inherits from msg_ctx->index */
>       u32 index;
>       u32 data_len;
> -     u8 data[];
> +     u8 data[] __counted_by(data_len);
>  };
>  
>  struct ecryptfs_msg_ctx {
> -- 
> Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
> GPG: 1D60 735E 8AEF 3BE4 73B6  9D84 7336 78FD 8DFE EAD4
> 

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