Re: [PATCH] net: sched: Annotate struct tc_pedit with __counted_by

From: Jamal Hadi Salim
Date: Sat Feb 17 2024 - 07:18:38 EST


On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 7:04 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 2/16/24 17:27, 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 tc_pedit.
> > Additionally, since the element count member must be set before accessing
> > the annotated flexible array member, move its initialization earlier.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci [1]
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> `opt->nkeys` updated before `memcpy()`, looks good to me:
>
> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

cheers,
jamal

> Thanks!
> --
> Gustavo
>
> > ---
> > include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_pedit.h | 2 +-
> > net/sched/act_pedit.c | 2 +-
> > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_pedit.h b/include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_pedit.h
> > index f3e61b04fa01..f5cab7fc96ab 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_pedit.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/tc_act/tc_pedit.h
> > @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ struct tc_pedit_sel {
> > tc_gen;
> > unsigned char nkeys;
> > unsigned char flags;
> > - struct tc_pedit_key keys[0];
> > + struct tc_pedit_key keys[] __counted_by(nkeys);
> > };
> >
> > #define tc_pedit tc_pedit_sel
> > diff --git a/net/sched/act_pedit.c b/net/sched/act_pedit.c
> > index 2ef22969f274..21e863d2898c 100644
> > --- a/net/sched/act_pedit.c
> > +++ b/net/sched/act_pedit.c
> > @@ -515,11 +515,11 @@ static int tcf_pedit_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tc_action *a,
> > spin_unlock_bh(&p->tcf_lock);
> > return -ENOBUFS;
> > }
> > + opt->nkeys = parms->tcfp_nkeys;
> >
> > memcpy(opt->keys, parms->tcfp_keys,
> > flex_array_size(opt, keys, parms->tcfp_nkeys));
> > opt->index = p->tcf_index;
> > - opt->nkeys = parms->tcfp_nkeys;
> > opt->flags = parms->tcfp_flags;
> > opt->action = p->tcf_action;
> > opt->refcnt = refcount_read(&p->tcf_refcnt) - ref;