Re: [PATCH 4/5] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Annotate struct mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group_info with __counted_by

Ido Schimmel
2023-10-01T10:34:42Z

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 11:07:43AM -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 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 mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group_info.
>
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
>
> Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>