Re: [PATCH] md/md-linear: Annotate struct linear_conf with __counted_by

From: Song Liu
Date: Fri Sep 29 2023 - 19:41:14 EST


On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 12:21 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:03:28 -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 linear_conf.
> > Additionally, since the element count member must be set before accessing
> > the annotated flexible array member, move its initialization earlier.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!
>
> [1/1] md/md-linear: Annotate struct linear_conf with __counted_by
> https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/9add7681e09b

Hmm..

Jens pulled this into his for-next branch and for-6.7/block branch
earlier today:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=e887544d7620f1d3cef017e45df7bc625182caff

Do we need to do anything about this (drop one of them)?

Thanks,
Song