linux-hardening - [PATCH][next] xen: privcmd: Replace zero-length array with flex-array member and use __counted

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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:54:59 -0600
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
	Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>
Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] xen: privcmd: Replace zero-length array with
 flex-array member and use __counted_by

Fake flexible arrays (zero-length and one-element arrays) are deprecated,
and should be replaced by flexible-array members. So, replace
zero-length array with a flexible-array member in `struct
privcmd_kernel_ioreq`.

Also annotate array `ports` with `__counted_by()` to 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).

This fixes multiple -Warray-bounds warnings:
drivers/xen/privcmd.c:1239:30: warning: array subscript i is outside array bounds of 'struct ioreq_port[0]' [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/xen/privcmd.c:1240:30: warning: array subscript i is outside array bounds of 'struct ioreq_port[0]' [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/xen/privcmd.c:1241:30: warning: array subscript i is outside array bounds of 'struct ioreq_port[0]' [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/xen/privcmd.c:1245:33: warning: array subscript i is outside array bounds of 'struct ioreq_port[0]' [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/xen/privcmd.c:1258:67: warning: array subscript i is outside array bounds of 'struct ioreq_port[0]' [-Warray-bounds=]

This results in no differences in binary output.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/xen/privcmd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
index 1ce7f3c7a950..0eb337a8ec0f 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ struct privcmd_kernel_ioreq {
 	spinlock_t lock; /* Protects ioeventfds list */
 	struct list_head ioeventfds;
 	struct list_head list;
-	struct ioreq_port ports[0];
+	struct ioreq_port ports[] __counted_by(vcpus);
 };
 
 static irqreturn_t ioeventfd_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
-- 
2.34.1