Re: [PATCH] bcachefs: Use struct_size()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon Oct 02 2023 - 03:07:04 EST


On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 09:42:06AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 09:23:17AM +0200, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/1/23 09:13, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > > Use struct_size() instead of hand writing it.
> > > This is less verbose and more robust.
> > >
> > > While at it, prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the
> > > __counted_by attribute. Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by
> > > can have their accesses bounds-checked at run-time checking via
> > > CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS (for array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for
> > > strcpy/memcpy-family functions).
> >
> > I would prefer this as two separate patches.
> >
>
> I kind of feel like it's all part of one thing. It's easier to review
> as one patch.

Also I think there is static analysis which sees struct_size()
allocations and pushes people to use __counted_by() so doing it in two
steps is sort of like introducing a static checker bug and then
silencing it in the next patch.

regards,
dan carpenter