linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] lkdtm/bugs: Improve warning message for compilers without counted

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:34:48 -0600
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, keescook@...omium.org
Cc: gustavoars@...nel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
 patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lkdtm/bugs: Improve warning message for compilers without
 counted_by support



On 3/21/24 14:18, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> The current message for telling the user that their compiler does not
> support the counted_by attribute in the FAM_BOUNDS test does not make
> much sense either grammatically or semantically. Fix it to make it
> correct in both aspects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>

Looks good to me :)

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>

Thanks!
--
Gustavo

> ---
>   drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c
> index b92767d6bdd2..5178c02b21eb 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c
> @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ static void lkdtm_FAM_BOUNDS(void)
>   	pr_err("FAIL: survived access of invalid flexible array member index!\n");
>   
>   	if (!__has_attribute(__counted_by__))
> -		pr_warn("This is expected since this %s was built a compiler supporting __counted_by\n",
> +		pr_warn("This is expected since this %s was built with a compiler that does not support __counted_by\n",
>   			lkdtm_kernel_info);
>   	else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS))
>   		pr_expected_config(CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP);
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 8d8b79685237b15f4bb676781f6bf241beb068a8
> change-id: 20240321-lkdtm-improve-lack-of-counted_by-msg-d3b9006bd6e3
> 
> Best regards,