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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	kees@kernel.org, gustavoars@kernel.org, mcgrof@kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2] params: Annotate struct module_param_attrs with __counted_by()
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:09:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZuSN5L908dFtxMVu@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B46D6F09-6F81-45B3-833F-9785BBBC146F@toblux.com>

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 09:03:06PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> On 13. Sep 2024, at 20:40, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 09:46:30AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 06:27:26PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> >>> Add the __counted_by compiler attribute to the flexible array member
> >>> attrs to improve access bounds-checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and
> >>> CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
> >>> 
> >>> Increment num before adding a new param_attribute to the attrs array and
> >>> adjust the array index accordingly. Increment num immediately after the
> >>> first reallocation such that the reallocation for the NULL terminator
> >>> only needs to add 1 (instead of 2) to mk->mp->num.
> >>> 
> >>> Use struct_size() instead of manually calculating the size for the
> >>> reallocation.
> >>> 
> >>> Use krealloc_array() for the additional NULL terminator.
> > 
> >>> /* Fix up all the pointers, since krealloc can move us */
> >>> for (i = 0; i < mk->mp->num; i++)
> > 
> > Shouldn't this for loop and followed by assignment also be -1:ed?
> 
> That should be fine as mk->mp->num was already incremented before the
> for-loop.

Exactly my point. This is behavioural change AFAICS as the original code used
the old (-1:ed) value, no?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-13 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-09 16:27 [RESEND PATCH v2] params: Annotate struct module_param_attrs with __counted_by() Thorsten Blum
2024-09-11 17:59 ` Luis Chamberlain
2024-09-13 16:46 ` Nathan Chancellor
2024-09-13 16:55   ` Luis Chamberlain
2024-09-13 18:40   ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-09-13 19:03     ` Thorsten Blum
2024-09-13 19:09       ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2024-09-13 19:12         ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-09-13 23:32   ` Thorsten Blum
2024-09-13 23:44     ` Nathan Chancellor
2024-09-14  0:23       ` Thorsten Blum
2024-09-16  9:45         ` Bill Wendling
2024-09-17 11:43           ` Kees Cook
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-12-21  9:48 Thorsten Blum
2025-01-07 10:55 Thorsten Blum
2025-01-14 21:49 Thorsten Blum
2025-02-04 16:44 ` Thorsten Blum
2025-02-11 13:18   ` Thorsten Blum
2025-02-13 21:51     ` Luis Chamberlain
2025-02-13 22:13 Thorsten Blum
2025-02-13 22:21 ` Luis Chamberlain
2025-02-17 10:04 ` Petr Pavlu

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