Re: [PATCH] hte: Annotate struct hte_device with __counted_by

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Thu Sep 28 2023 - 00:43:00 EST


On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 2:54 AM 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 hte_device.
>
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
>
> Cc: Dipen Patel <dipenp@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: timestamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yep, this flexible array member is counted by @nlines which
is evident throughout hte.c:

gdev = kzalloc(struct_size(gdev, ei, chip->nlines), GFP_KERNEL);
...
gdev->nlines = chip->nlines;
...
for (i = 0; i < chip->nlines; i++) {
gdev->ei[i].gdev = gdev;
...


Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/hte/hte.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hte/hte.c b/drivers/hte/hte.c
> index 598a716b7364..1fd8d2d4528b 100644
> --- a/drivers/hte/hte.c
> +++ b/drivers/hte/hte.c
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct hte_device {
> struct list_head list;
> struct hte_chip *chip;
> struct module *owner;
> - struct hte_ts_info ei[];
> + struct hte_ts_info ei[] __counted_by(nlines);
> };
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>