Re: [PATCH] lib/test_ubsan: Silence compile-time array bounds warnings

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Dec 03 2021 - 18:07:35 EST


On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 05:53:15PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 17:21, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On December 3, 2021 2:49:53 AM PST, Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> > >Are there other warnings or only the one for the fsanitize=object-size
> > >test? I think this is fine if there are other warnings.
> >
> > I will double check, but I think it's only the object-size test, which seems to confirm my suspicion that -Warray-bounds provides sufficient coverage and object-size can be removed.
> >
> > I have another patch I intend to send today for the sk_buff/sk_buff_head issue, as -Warray-bounds warns for that as well.
>
> Nice.
>
> Do you want to send the patch removing UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE, or shall I
> do it? Perhaps it ties in better with the rest of your patches which I
> have no state of.

Sure; I'll tear it out. :) Thanks for doing the deep inspection on what
it is actually doing! That had been my main open question while digging
through all the -Warray-bounds warnings.

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Kees Cook