Re: [PATCH] audit: Annotate struct audit_chunk with __counted_by

From: Paul Moore
Date: Fri Aug 18 2023 - 11:19:39 EST


On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 4:35 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 audit_chunk.
>
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
>
> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: audit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/audit_tree.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

This looks good to me, but considering we are currently at -rc6 I'd
prefer to hold off until after the upcoming merge window. I'll send
another note once it's been merged into audit/next.

Thanks.

> diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c
> index e867c17d3f84..85a5b306733b 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit_tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct audit_chunk {
> struct list_head list;
> struct audit_tree *owner;
> unsigned index; /* index; upper bit indicates 'will prune' */
> - } owners[];
> + } owners[] __counted_by(count);
> };
>
> struct audit_tree_mark {
> --
> 2.34.1

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