Re: [PATCH] watch_queue: Annotate struct watch_filter with __counted_by

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Sat Sep 23 2023 - 08:22:31 EST




On 9/22/23 11:54, 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 watch_filter.

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

Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Siddh Raman Pant <code@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

Thanks
--
Gustavo

---
include/linux/watch_queue.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/watch_queue.h b/include/linux/watch_queue.h
index 45cd42f55d49..429c7b6afead 100644
--- a/include/linux/watch_queue.h
+++ b/include/linux/watch_queue.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ struct watch_filter {
DECLARE_BITMAP(type_filter, WATCH_TYPE__NR);
};
u32 nr_filters; /* Number of filters */
- struct watch_type_filter filters[];
+ struct watch_type_filter filters[] __counted_by(nr_filters);
};
struct watch_queue {