Re: [PATCH RFC 5/6] apparmor: LLVMLinux: Remove VLAIS

From: John Johansen
Date: Tue Sep 02 2014 - 19:16:52 EST


On 09/02/2014 03:32 PM, behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: VinÃcius Tinti <viniciustinti@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Replaced the use of a Variable Length Array In Struct (VLAIS) with a C99
> compliant equivalent. This is the original VLAIS struct.
>
> struct {
> struct shash_desc shash;
> char ctx[crypto_shash_descsize(apparmor_tfm)];
> } desc;
>
> This patch instead allocates the appropriate amount of memory using an
> char array.
>
> The new code can be compiled with both gcc and clang.
>
> struct shash_desc contains a flexible array member member ctx declared with
> CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR, so sizeof(struct shash_desc) aligns the beginning
> of the array declared after struct shash_desc with long long.
>
> No trailing padding is required because it is not a struct type that can
> be used in an array.
>
> The CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR is required so that desc is aligned with long long
> as would be the case for a struct containing a member with
> CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon MÃller <dl9pf@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: VinÃcius Tinti <viniciustinti@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@xxxxxxxxx>

I'm fine with this, do you want me to pull it into my tree for our next push
or do you want this all to go together as a set?

Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> security/apparmor/crypto.c | 19 +++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/crypto.c b/security/apparmor/crypto.c
> index 532471d..62b32e7 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/crypto.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/crypto.c
> @@ -32,10 +32,9 @@ unsigned int aa_hash_size(void)
> int aa_calc_profile_hash(struct aa_profile *profile, u32 version, void *start,
> size_t len)
> {
> - struct {
> - struct shash_desc shash;
> - char ctx[crypto_shash_descsize(apparmor_tfm)];
> - } desc;
> + char desc[sizeof(struct shash_desc)
> + + crypto_shash_descsize(apparmor_tfm)] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR;
> + struct shash_desc *shash = (struct shash_desc *)desc;
> int error = -ENOMEM;
> u32 le32_version = cpu_to_le32(version);
>
> @@ -46,19 +45,19 @@ int aa_calc_profile_hash(struct aa_profile *profile, u32 version, void *start,
> if (!profile->hash)
> goto fail;
>
> - desc.shash.tfm = apparmor_tfm;
> - desc.shash.flags = 0;
> + shash->tfm = apparmor_tfm;
> + shash->flags = 0;
>
> - error = crypto_shash_init(&desc.shash);
> + error = crypto_shash_init(shash);
> if (error)
> goto fail;
> - error = crypto_shash_update(&desc.shash, (u8 *) &le32_version, 4);
> + error = crypto_shash_update(shash, (u8 *) &le32_version, 4);
> if (error)
> goto fail;
> - error = crypto_shash_update(&desc.shash, (u8 *) start, len);
> + error = crypto_shash_update(shash, (u8 *) start, len);
> if (error)
> goto fail;
> - error = crypto_shash_final(&desc.shash, profile->hash);
> + error = crypto_shash_final(shash, profile->hash);
> if (error)
> goto fail;
>
>

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