Re: [PATCH] nexthop: Annotate struct nh_group with __counted_by

From: David Ahern
Date: Tue Oct 03 2023 - 22:45:24 EST


On 10/3/23 7:44 PM, 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 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 nh_group.
>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci [1]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/net/nexthop.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>