Re: [PATCH v2] overflow: Change DEFINE_FLEX to take __counted_by member

From: Simon Horman
Date: Fri Mar 08 2024 - 15:20:31 EST


On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 03:51:36PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> The norm should be flexible array structures with __counted_by
> annotations, so DEFINE_FLEX() is updated to expect that. Rename
> the non-annotated version to DEFINE_RAW_FLEX(), and update the
> few existing users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Kees,

I'm unclear what this is based on, as it doesn't appear to apply
cleanly to net-next or the dev-queue branch of the iwl-next tree.
But I manually applied it to the latter and ran some checks.

..

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c
> index f84bab80ca42..d4baae8c3b72 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c

Given what is currently in the dev-queue branch of the iwl-next tree,
the following hunk also seems to be required for ice_switch.c.

@@ -5378,7 +5378,7 @@ ice_get_compat_fv_bitmap(struct ice_hw *hw, struct ice_adv_rule_info *rinfo,
*/
static int ice_subscribe_recipe(struct ice_hw *hw, u16 rid)
{
- DEFINE_FLEX(struct ice_aqc_alloc_free_res_elem, sw_buf, elem, 1);
+ DEFINE_RAW_FLEX(struct ice_aqc_alloc_free_res_elem, sw_buf, elem, 1);
u16 buf_len = __struct_size(sw_buf);
u16 res_type;
int status;

..

> diff --git a/include/linux/overflow.h b/include/linux/overflow.h
> index aa691f2119b0..677b03c4c84f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/overflow.h
> +++ b/include/linux/overflow.h
> @@ -396,9 +396,9 @@ static inline size_t __must_check size_sub(size_t minuend, size_t subtrahend)
> * @name: Name for a variable to define.
> * @member: Name of the array member.
> * @count: Number of elements in the array; must be compile-time const.
> - * @initializer: initializer expression (could be empty for no init).
> + * @initializer...: initializer expression (could be empty for no init).

Curiously kernel-doc --none seems happier without the line above changed.

> */
> -#define _DEFINE_FLEX(type, name, member, count, initializer) \
> +#define _DEFINE_FLEX(type, name, member, count, initializer...) \
> _Static_assert(__builtin_constant_p(count), \
> "onstack flex array members require compile-time const count"); \
> union { \

..