Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Annotate struct port_buffer with __counted_by

[Amit Shah]

On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 10:51 -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 port_buffer.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
> 
> Cc: Amit Shah <amit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> index 680d1ef2a217..431e9e5bf9c1 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct port_buffer {
>  	unsigned int sgpages;
>  
>  	/* sg is used if spages > 0. sg must be the last in is struct */
> -	struct scatterlist sg[];
> +	struct scatterlist sg[] __counted_by(sgpages);
>  };

Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit@xxxxxxxxxx>

Greg, please pick this up.

Thanks,

		Amit