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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:04:14 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>, 
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, 
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, 
	Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, 
	David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>, Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>, 
	linux-input <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>, linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Remove false-positive VLAs when using max()

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> Seems like it doesn't like void * arguments:

Yeah, that was discussed separately, I just didn't realize we had any
such users.

As David said, just adding a (long) cast to it should be fine, ie

  #define __is_constant(a) \
         (sizeof(int) == sizeof(*(1 ? ((void*)((long)(a) * 0l)) : (int*)1)))

and is probably a good idea even outside of pointers (because "long
long" constants could cause warnings too due to the cast to (void *)).

                Linus

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