From 6846100b00d97d3d6f05766ae86a0d821d849e78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Huang Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 04:01:31 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] bcachefs: Remove incorrect __counted_by annotation This actually reverts 86e92eeeb237 ("bcachefs: Annotate struct bch_xattr with __counted_by()"). After the x_name, there is a value. According to the disscussion[1], __counted_by assumes that the flexible array member contains exactly the amount of elements that are specified. Now there are users came across a false positive detection of an out of bounds write caused by the __counted_by here[2], so revert that. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Zv8VDKWN1GzLRT-_@archlinux/T/#m0ce9541c5070146320efd4f928cc1ff8de69e9b2 [2] https://privatebin.net/?a0d4e97d590d71e1#9bLmp2Kb5NU6X6cZEucchDcu88HzUQwHUah8okKPReEt Signed-off-by: Alan Huang Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet --- fs/bcachefs/xattr_format.h | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/xattr_format.h b/fs/bcachefs/xattr_format.h index c7916011ef34..67426e33d04e 100644 --- a/fs/bcachefs/xattr_format.h +++ b/fs/bcachefs/xattr_format.h @@ -13,7 +13,13 @@ struct bch_xattr { __u8 x_type; __u8 x_name_len; __le16 x_val_len; - __u8 x_name[] __counted_by(x_name_len); + /* + * x_name contains the name and value counted by + * x_name_len + x_val_len. The introduction of + * __counted_by(x_name_len) caused a false positive + * detection of an out of bounds write. + */ + __u8 x_name[]; } __packed __aligned(8); #endif /* _BCACHEFS_XATTR_FORMAT_H */ -- 2.50.1