linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] libnvdimm: Annotate struct nd_region with __counted

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Message-ID: <e5f86461-fc67-d109-229c-b9d3fefd263a@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:04:04 -0700
From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
	<nvdimm@...ts.linux.dev>, 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] libnvdimm: Annotate struct nd_region with __counted_by



On 9/22/23 10:52, 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 nd_region.
> 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: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
> Cc: nvdimm@...ts.linux.dev
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>

> ---
>  drivers/nvdimm/nd.h          | 2 +-
>  drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h b/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
> index e8b9d27dbb3c..ae2078eb6a62 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
> @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ struct nd_region {
>  	struct nd_interleave_set *nd_set;
>  	struct nd_percpu_lane __percpu *lane;
>  	int (*flush)(struct nd_region *nd_region, struct bio *bio);
> -	struct nd_mapping mapping[];
> +	struct nd_mapping mapping[] __counted_by(ndr_mappings);
>  };
>  
>  static inline bool nsl_validate_nlabel(struct nd_region *nd_region,
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
> index 0a81f87f6f6c..5be65fce85cf 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c
> @@ -1028,6 +1028,7 @@ static struct nd_region *nd_region_create(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus,
>  
>  	if (!nd_region)
>  		return NULL;
> +	nd_region->ndr_mappings = ndr_desc->num_mappings;
>  	/* CXL pre-assigns memregion ids before creating nvdimm regions */
>  	if (test_bit(ND_REGION_CXL, &ndr_desc->flags)) {
>  		nd_region->id = ndr_desc->memregion;
> @@ -1062,7 +1063,6 @@ static struct nd_region *nd_region_create(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus,
>  
>  		get_device(&nvdimm->dev);
>  	}
> -	nd_region->ndr_mappings = ndr_desc->num_mappings;
>  	nd_region->provider_data = ndr_desc->provider_data;
>  	nd_region->nd_set = ndr_desc->nd_set;
>  	nd_region->num_lanes = ndr_desc->num_lanes;