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| author | Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> | 2025-11-03 16:26:16 -0800 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-11-04 19:10:33 -0800 |
| commit | 2b5e9f9b7e414c5eeb20dd7a7b80816ff55cf57b (patch) | |
| tree | 8e72511780bc69941e51a54cfa126f0e9538347a /net/core/dev.c | |
| parent | c1a799eef62b8c3298a4d82753fe0f2a448e5e4f (diff) | |
net: Convert struct sockaddr to fixed-size "sa_data[14]"
Revert struct sockaddr from flexible array to fixed 14-byte "sa_data",
to solve over 36,000 -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings, since
struct sockaddr is embedded within many network structs.
With socket/proto sockaddr-based internal APIs switched to use struct
sockaddr_unsized, there should be no more uses of struct sockaddr that
depend on reading beyond the end of struct sockaddr::sa_data that might
trigger bounds checking.
Comparing an x86_64 "allyesconfig" vmlinux build before and after this
patch showed no new "ud1" instructions from CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS nor any
new "field-spanning" memcpy CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE instrumentations.
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-8-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index ba39146bbd25..537aa43edff0 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -9973,7 +9973,7 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(dev_addr_sem); /* "sa" is a true struct sockaddr with limited "sa_data" member. */ int netif_get_mac_address(struct sockaddr *sa, struct net *net, char *dev_name) { - size_t size = sizeof(sa->sa_data_min); + size_t size = sizeof(sa->sa_data); struct net_device *dev; int ret = 0; |