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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>, Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] staging: greybus: Add __counted_by for struct apr_rx_buf and use struct_size()
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 16:08:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202310091608.C892CFA@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZSR2O6zGyT/VX6ve@work>

On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 03:52:59PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva 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).
> 
> While there, use struct_size() helper, instead of the open-coded
> version, to calculate the size for the allocation of the whole
> flexible structure, including of course, the flexible-array member.
> 
> This code was found with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
> fixed manually.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>

Looks right, "len" is updated before accessing "data[]".

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-09 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-09 21:52 [PATCH][next] staging: greybus: Add __counted_by for struct apr_rx_buf and use struct_size() Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-10-09 23:08 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-10-10  2:01 ` Alex Elder

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