Re: [PATCH] mailbox: zynqmp: Annotate struct zynqmp_ipi_pdata with __counted_by

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Tue Oct 03 2023 - 18:57:15 EST


On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 10:54 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 zynqmp_ipi_pdata.
>
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
>
> Cc: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Great patch! Crucially, the count is _correctly_ assigned
to before the flexible array member is accessed.

Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>

> drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
> index e4fcac97dbfa..7fa533e80dd9 100644
> --- a/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
> @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ struct zynqmp_ipi_pdata {
> unsigned int method;
> u32 local_id;
> int num_mboxes;
> - struct zynqmp_ipi_mbox ipi_mboxes[];
> + struct zynqmp_ipi_mbox ipi_mboxes[] __counted_by(num_mboxes);
> };
>
> static struct device_driver zynqmp_ipi_mbox_driver = {
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
Thanks
Justin