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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4 v5] fortify: Add Clang support
On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 01:27:11PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 4:30 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > +#define BOS const __pass_object_size(1)
> > +#define BOS0 const __pass_object_size(0)
>
> A dumb bikeshed, but would you mind naming these BOS1 and BOS0, and
> perhaps consider adding a comment or pointer or link to something that
> describes why we use the two different modes? I recognize that the
> code already uses the two different modes already without comments,
> but this might be a nice place to point folks like myself to so that
> in a month or so when I forget what the difference is between modes
> (again), we have a shorter trail of breadcrumbs.

Sure, I can do that. My expectation was to entirely eliminate mode 0
usage in the future.

Though now that things are so close, I'll just do some builds with the
last few users switched over. But maybe memcmp() was a pain? I'll go
check...

--
Kees Cook

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