On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 06:37:27PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 05:12:11PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On 2/6/25 17:00, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c
> > > @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static void __noreturn tdx_panic(const char *msg)
> > > /* Define register order according to the GHCI */
> > > struct { u64 r14, r15, rbx, rdi, rsi, r8, r9, rdx; };
> > >
> > > - char str[64];
> > > + char str[64] __nonstring;
> > > } message;
> >
> > So, the patch itself makes sense. But it does end up looking kinda
> > funky. We call it a "str"ing and then annotate it as not a string.
>
> Yeah, this is true all over the place. It's a string, just not a
> NUL-terminated string: *sob*
>
> > It doesn't have to be done in this patch, but it does seem like we
> > should probably not be using 'char' and also shouldn't call it anything
> > close to "string". Maybe:
> >
> > u8 message[64] __nonstring;
> > } message;
>
> message.message ;)
>
> message.chars?
> message.bytes?
.bytes sounds good to me.
Anyway:
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
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