[PATCH] crypto: nx - annotate struct nx842_crypto_header with __counted_by

Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum at linux.dev
Wed Mar 18 07:18:06 AEDT 2026


Add the __counted_by() compiler attribute to the flexible array member
'group' to improve access bounds-checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum at linux.dev>
---
 drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842.h b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842.h
index f5e2c82ba876..a04e85e9f78e 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842.h
+++ b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842.h
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ struct nx842_crypto_header {
 		__be16 ignore;		/* decompressed end bytes to ignore */
 		u8 groups;		/* total groups in this header */
 	);
-	struct nx842_crypto_header_group group[];
+	struct nx842_crypto_header_group group[] __counted_by(groups);
 } __packed;
 static_assert(offsetof(struct nx842_crypto_header, group) == sizeof(struct nx842_crypto_header_hdr),
 	      "struct member likely outside of struct_group_tagged()");


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