Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: uniphier: Annotate struct uniphier_pinctrl_reg_region with __counted_by

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Sat Sep 23 2023 - 04:27:32 EST




On 9/22/23 11:50, Kees Cook 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 uniphier_pinctrl_reg_region.

[1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci

Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kunihiko Hayashi <hayashi.kunihiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
--
Gustavo

---
drivers/pinctrl/uniphier/pinctrl-uniphier-core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/uniphier/pinctrl-uniphier-core.c b/drivers/pinctrl/uniphier/pinctrl-uniphier-core.c
index 18d3a4f69e63..fbd0fcdb42c8 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/uniphier/pinctrl-uniphier-core.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/uniphier/pinctrl-uniphier-core.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct uniphier_pinctrl_reg_region {
struct list_head node;
unsigned int base;
unsigned int nregs;
- u32 vals[];
+ u32 vals[] __counted_by(nregs);
};
struct uniphier_pinctrl_priv {