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One of the worst offenders of "fake flexible arrays" is struct sockaddr, as it is the classic example of why GCC and Clang have been traditionally forced to treat all trailing arrays as fake flexible arrays: in the distant misty past, sa_data became too small, and code started just treating it as a flexible array, even though it was fixed-size. The special case by the compiler is specifically that sizeof(sa->sa_data) and FORTIFY_SOURCE (which uses __builtin_object_size(sa->sa_data, 1)) do not agree (14 and -1 respectively), which makes FORTIFY_SOURCE treat it as a flexible array. However, the coming -fstrict-flex-arrays compiler flag will remove these special cases so that FORTIFY_SOURCE can gain coverage over all the trailing arrays in the kernel that are _not_ supposed to be treated as a flexible array. To deal with this change, convert sa_data to a true flexible array. To keep the structure size the same, move sa_data into a union with a newly introduced sa_data_min with the original size. The result is that FORTIFY_SOURCE can continue to have no idea how large sa_data may actually be, but anything using sizeof(sa->sa_data) must switch to sizeof(sa->sa_data_min). Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Cc: Dylan Yudaken <dylany@fb.com> Cc: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev> Cc: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Cc: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221018095503.never.671-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.