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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>,
	linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs: Annotate struct afs_addr_list with __counted_by
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:50:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e558c8be-985b-014a-a0ff-34e84a2cb24c@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230915201449.never.649-kees@kernel.org>



On 9/15/23 14:14, 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 afs_addr_list.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
> 
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
> Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>

Thanks
-- 
Gustavo

> ---
>   fs/afs/internal.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/afs/internal.h b/fs/afs/internal.h
> index da73b97e19a9..07433a5349ca 100644
> --- a/fs/afs/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/afs/internal.h
> @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ struct afs_addr_list {
>   	enum dns_lookup_status	status:8;
>   	unsigned long		failed;		/* Mask of addrs that failed locally/ICMP */
>   	unsigned long		responded;	/* Mask of addrs that responded */
> -	struct sockaddr_rxrpc	addrs[];
> +	struct sockaddr_rxrpc	addrs[] __counted_by(max_addrs);
>   #define AFS_MAX_ADDRESSES ((unsigned int)(sizeof(unsigned long) * 8))
>   };
>   

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-15 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-15 20:14 [PATCH] afs: Annotate struct afs_addr_list with __counted_by Kees Cook
2023-09-15 20:50 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2023-09-29 19:17 ` Kees Cook

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