Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] KEYS: annotate struct user_key_payload with __counted_by

"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]> Sun, 10 May 2026 14:32:40 -0600
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.keyrings,org.kernel.vger.linux-hardening
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 5/10/26 04:47, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2026 at 02:24:01PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 01:44:24PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
>>> Add the __counted_by() compiler attribute to the flexible array member
>>> 'data' to improve bounds checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and
>>> CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
>>
>> This is again a crippled commit message.
>>
>> I.e. this requires either knowing, remembering and/or cross-referencing
>> "bunch of" unrelated to keyring.
> 
> I kept the commit message short because it follows the same pattern as
> many other __counted_by() patches that have been accepted across several
> subsystems.

That's clearly not a good example of how to document changes, so I wouldn't
use it as a reference.

-Gustavo