Re: [PATCH 1/7] wifi: cfg80211: Annotate struct cfg80211_acl_data with __counted_by

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Thu Aug 17 2023 - 17:22:15 EST


On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 2:16 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the __counted_by
> attribute. Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by can have
> their accesses bounds-checked at run-time checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS
> (for array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for strcpy/memcpy-family
> functions).
>
> As found with Coccinelle[1], add __counted_by for struct cfg80211_acl_data.
> Additionally, since the element count member must be set before accessing
> the annotated flexible array member, move its initialization earlier.
>
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
>
> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> include/net/cfg80211.h | 2 +-
> net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 +--
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
> index d6fa7c8767ad..eb73b5af5d04 100644
> --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
> +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
> @@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ struct cfg80211_acl_data {
> int n_acl_entries;
>
> /* Keep it last */
> - struct mac_address mac_addrs[];
> + struct mac_address mac_addrs[] __counted_by(n_acl_entries);
> };
>
> /**
> diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> index 8bcf8e293308..80633e815311 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
> @@ -4889,13 +4889,12 @@ static struct cfg80211_acl_data *parse_acl_data(struct wiphy *wiphy,
> acl = kzalloc(struct_size(acl, mac_addrs, n_entries), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!acl)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> + acl->n_acl_entries = n_entries;
>
> nla_for_each_nested(attr, info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC_ADDRS], tmp) {
> memcpy(acl->mac_addrs[i].addr, nla_data(attr), ETH_ALEN);
> i++;
> }
> -
> - acl->n_acl_entries = n_entries;
> acl->acl_policy = acl_policy;
>
> return acl;
> --
> 2.34.1
>