Re: [PATCH 0/6] lib/crypto: More at_least decorations
From: Eric Biggers
Date: Sun Nov 23 2025 - 15:37:45 EST
On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 09:31:19AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 at 20:42, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This series depends on the 'at_least' macro added by
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251122025510.1625066-4-Jason@xxxxxxxxx
> > It can also be retrieved from
> >
> > git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux.git more-at-least-decorations-v1
> >
> > Add the at_least (i.e. 'static') decoration to the fixed-size array
> > parameters of more of the crypto library functions. This causes clang
> > to generate a warning if a too-small array of known size is passed.
> >
>
> FTR GCC does so too.
See https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20251115021430.GA2148@sol/
Unfortunately gcc puts these warnings under -Wstringop-overflow which
the kernel disables, so we don't see them. clang works, though.
- Eric