[PATCH net-next v3 2/2] KEYS: annotate struct user_key_payload with __counted_by
From: Thorsten Blum
Date: Mon Apr 27 2026 - 07:48:17 EST
Add the __counted_by() compiler attribute to the flexible array member
'data' to improve bounds checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
- Formatting only, do not split the declaration into two lines (Jarkko)
- v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260409225703.158552-7-thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx/
Changes in v2:
- Use __aligned(8) as suggested by David
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260409073711.57020-6-thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx/
---
include/keys/user-type.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/keys/user-type.h b/include/keys/user-type.h
index 386c31432789..30de4f92a721 100644
--- a/include/keys/user-type.h
+++ b/include/keys/user-type.h
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
struct user_key_payload {
struct rcu_head rcu; /* RCU destructor */
unsigned short datalen; /* length of this data */
- char data[] __aligned(__alignof__(u64)); /* actual data */
+ char data[] __aligned(8) __counted_by(datalen); /* actual data */
};
extern struct key_type key_type_user;