[dm-devel] [PATCH RFC 5/6] apparmor: LLVMLinux: Remove VLAIS

[John Johansen]

On 09/02/2014 03:32 PM, behanw at converseincode.com wrote:
> From: Vinícius Tinti <viniciustinti at gmail.com>
> 
> Replaced the use of a Variable Length Array In Struct (VLAIS) with a C99
> compliant equivalent. This is the original VLAIS struct.
> 
> struct {
> 	struct shash_desc shash;
> 	char ctx[crypto_shash_descsize(apparmor_tfm)];
> } desc;
> 
> This patch instead allocates the appropriate amount of memory using an
> char array.
> 
> The new code can be compiled with both gcc and clang.
> 
> struct shash_desc contains a flexible array member member ctx declared with
> CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR, so sizeof(struct shash_desc) aligns the beginning
> of the array declared after struct shash_desc with long long.
> 
> No trailing padding is required because it is not a struct type that can
> be used in an array.
> 
> The CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR is required so that desc is aligned with long long
> as would be the case for a struct containing a member with
> CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf at gmx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw at converseincode.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vinícius Tinti <viniciustinti at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois <charlebm at gmail.com>

I'm fine with this, do you want me to pull it into my tree for our next push
or do you want this all to go together as a set?

Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen at canonical.com>

> ---
>  security/apparmor/crypto.c | 19 +++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/crypto.c b/security/apparmor/crypto.c
> index 532471d..62b32e7 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/crypto.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/crypto.c
> @@ -32,10 +32,9 @@ unsigned int aa_hash_size(void)
>  int aa_calc_profile_hash(struct aa_profile *profile, u32 version, void *start,
>  			 size_t len)
>  {
> -	struct {
> -		struct shash_desc shash;
> -		char ctx[crypto_shash_descsize(apparmor_tfm)];
> -	} desc;
> +	char desc[sizeof(struct shash_desc)
> +		+ crypto_shash_descsize(apparmor_tfm)] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR;
> +	struct shash_desc *shash = (struct shash_desc *)desc;
>  	int error = -ENOMEM;
>  	u32 le32_version = cpu_to_le32(version);
>  
> @@ -46,19 +45,19 @@ int aa_calc_profile_hash(struct aa_profile *profile, u32 version, void *start,
>  	if (!profile->hash)
>  		goto fail;
>  
> -	desc.shash.tfm = apparmor_tfm;
> -	desc.shash.flags = 0;
> +	shash->tfm = apparmor_tfm;
> +	shash->flags = 0;
>  
> -	error = crypto_shash_init(&desc.shash);
> +	error = crypto_shash_init(shash);
>  	if (error)
>  		goto fail;
> -	error = crypto_shash_update(&desc.shash, (u8 *) &le32_version, 4);
> +	error = crypto_shash_update(shash, (u8 *) &le32_version, 4);
>  	if (error)
>  		goto fail;
> -	error = crypto_shash_update(&desc.shash, (u8 *) start, len);
> +	error = crypto_shash_update(shash, (u8 *) start, len);
>  	if (error)
>  		goto fail;
> -	error = crypto_shash_final(&desc.shash, profile->hash);
> +	error = crypto_shash_final(shash, profile->hash);
>  	if (error)
>  		goto fail;
>  
>