Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add kernel hardening keyword __counted_by_ptr

[Thorsten Blum]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 03:09:28PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> In addition to __counted_by, __counted_by_le, and __counted_by_be, also
> match the keyword __counted_by_ptr.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 1126fdd639ad..969460c85ad6 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -13889,7 +13889,7 @@ F:	scripts/Makefile.randstruct
>  F:	security/Kconfig.hardening
>  K:	\b(add|choose)_random_kstack_offset\b
>  K:	\b__check_(object_size|heap_object)\b
> -K:	\b__counted_by(_le|_be)?\b
> +K:	\b__counted_by(_le|_be|_ptr)?\b
>  
>  KERNEL JANITORS
>  L:	kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Could you give this another look so that __counted_by_ptr() patches are
also sent to linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?

Thanks,
Thorsten