linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 4/7] wifi: cfg80211: Annotate struct cfg80211_pmsr_request with __counted

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Message-ID: <381e827c-db06-4861-893c-ae5b90a4385f@quicinc.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:03:37 -0700
From:   Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
CC:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <llvm@...ts.linux.dev>, <linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] wifi: cfg80211: Annotate struct cfg80211_pmsr_request
 with __counted_by

On 8/17/2023 2:15 PM, 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 cfg80211_pmsr_request.
> Additionally, since the element count member must be set before accessing
> the annotated flexible array member, move its initialization earlier.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
> 
> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Reviewed-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>