Re: [PATCH] mm/memcg: Annotate struct mem_cgroup_threshold_ary with __counted_by

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Sat Sep 23 2023 - 05:03:10 EST


On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 10:53:28AM -0700, 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 mem_cgroup_threshold_ary.
>
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

Thanks
--
Gustavo

> ---
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 45d0c10e86cc..e0cfab58ab71 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup_threshold_ary {
> /* Size of entries[] */
> unsigned int size;
> /* Array of thresholds */
> - struct mem_cgroup_threshold entries[];
> + struct mem_cgroup_threshold entries[] __counted_by(size);
> };
>
> struct mem_cgroup_thresholds {
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>