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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	llvm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netem: Annotate struct disttable with __counted_by
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 20:32:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231003203240.45705fde@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231003231823.work.684-kees@kernel.org>

On Tue,  3 Oct 2023 16:18:23 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> 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).
> 
> As found with Coccinelle[1], add __counted_by for struct disttable.
> 
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
> 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
> Link: https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci [1]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

PS: size is intended wrong in original code but that is not important.
Should have lined up with table[].

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-04  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-03 23:18 [PATCH] netem: Annotate struct disttable with __counted_by Kees Cook
2023-10-03 23:38 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-10-04  3:32 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-10-06  1:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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