Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] erroneous buffer overflow detected in bch2_xattr_validate

[Jan Hendrik Farr]

On 03 17:02:07, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> On 3. Oct 2024, at 15:12, Jan Hendrik Farr <kernel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 03 15:07:52, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> >> On 3. Oct 2024, at 13:33, Jan Hendrik Farr <kernel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> [...]
> >>> 
> >>> This issue is now fixed on the llvm main branch:
> >>> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/882457a2eedbe6d53161b2f78fcf769fc9a93e8a
> >> 
> >> Thanks!
> >> 
> >> Do you know if it also fixes the different sizes here:
> >> https://godbolt.org/z/vvK9PE1Yq
> > 
> > Unfortunately this still prints 36.
> 
> I just realized that the counted_by attribute itself causes the 4 bytes
> difference. When you remove the attribute, the sizes are equal again.

But we want these attributes to be in the kernel, so that
bounds-checking can be done in more scenarios, right?

This changes clang to print 40, right? gcc prints 40 in the example
whether the attribute is there or not.

> 
> >> I ran out of disk space when compiling llvm :0
> >> 
> >>> So presumably this will go into 19.1.2, not sure what this means for
> >>> distros that ship clang 18. Will they have to be notified to backport
> >>> this?
> >>> 
> >>> Best Regards
> >>> Jan