On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 07:58:10PM +0200, 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]> > --- > include/keys/user-type.h | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/include/keys/user-type.h b/include/keys/user-type.h > index 386c31432789..2305991f4fcd 100644 > --- a/include/keys/user-type.h > +++ b/include/keys/user-type.h > @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ > struct user_key_payload { > struct rcu_head rcu; /* RCU destructor */ > unsigned short datalen; /* length of this data */ > - char data[] __aligned(__alignof__(u64)); /* actual data */ > + char data[] /* actual data */ > + __aligned(__alignof__(u64)) __counted_by(datalen); > }; > > extern struct key_type key_type_user;
You don't provide any evidence of any improvement. BR, Jarkko
