[PATCH] skbuff: Switch structure bounds to struct_group()

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Fri Nov 19 07:13:55 UTC 2021


On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:36:15 -0800 Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
> field bounds checking for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset(), avoid
> intentionally writing across neighboring fields.
> 
> Replace the existing empty member position markers "headers_start" and
> "headers_end" with a struct_group(). This will allow memcpy() and sizeof()
> to more easily reason about sizes, and improve readability.
> 
> "pahole" shows no size nor member offset changes to struct sk_buff.
> "objdump -d" shows no object code changes (outside of WARNs affected by
> source line number changes).

This adds ~27k of these warnings to W=1 gcc builds:

include/linux/skbuff.h:851:1: warning: directive in macro's argument list


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