linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Annotate struct bios_args with __counted

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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:56:21 -0600
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Jorge Lopez <jorge.lopez2@...com>, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
	Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
	Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Annotate struct bios_args with
 __counted_by

On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 10:54:21AM -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 bios_args.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
> 
> Cc: Jorge Lopez <jorge.lopez2@...com>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
> Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>
> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> Cc: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
> Cc: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: llvm@...ts.linux.dev
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

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

Thanks
--
Gustavo

> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/biosattr-interface.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/biosattr-interface.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/biosattr-interface.c
> index dea54f35b8b5..4da99cb7218d 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/biosattr-interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/biosattr-interface.c
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ struct bios_args {
>  	u32 command;
>  	u32 commandtype;
>  	u32 datasize;
> -	u8 data[];
> +	u8 data[] __counted_by(datasize);
>  };
>  
>  /**
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
>