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

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo at embeddedor.com
Wed Mar 18 10:35:39 AEDT 2026



On 3/17/26 14:18, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars at kernel.org>

Thanks
-Gustavo

> ---
>   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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