Re: [PATCH] xfrm: Annotate struct xfrm_sec_ctx with __counted_by

From: Steffen Klassert
Date: Fri Oct 06 2023 - 01:47:38 EST


On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 04:18:28PM -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 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 xfrm_sec_ctx.
>
> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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>

Applied to ipsec-next, thanks!