[PATCH 28/32] selinux: Use mem_to_flex_dup() with xfrm and sidtab

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

Hi Paul,

On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 06:57:28PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 9:57 PM Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:

[..]

> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/xfrm.h
> > @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ struct xfrm_id {
> >  struct xfrm_sec_ctx {
> >         __u8    ctx_doi;
> >         __u8    ctx_alg;
> > -       __u16   ctx_len;
> > +       __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY_ELEMENTS_COUNT(__u16, ctx_len);
> >         __u32   ctx_sid;
> > -       char    ctx_str[0];
> > +       __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY_ELEMENTS(char, ctx_str);
> >  };
> 
> While I like the idea of this in principle, I'd like to hear about the
> testing you've done on these patches.  A previous flex array
> conversion in the audit uapi headers ended up causing a problem with

I'm curious about which commit caused those problems...?

Thanks
--
Gustavo

> GCC12 and SWIG; while it was a SWIG problem and not a kernel header
> problem that was thin consolation for those with broken builds.