linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] mxser: Annotate struct mxser_board with __counted

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Message-ID: <b1659ba0-24cd-4cc0-9558-a311781e0a22@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:20:31 +0200
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
 Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
 Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>, NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
 linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.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] mxser: Annotate struct mxser_board with __counted_by

On 22. 09. 23, 19:52, 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 mxser_board.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci

Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>

thanks,
-- 
js
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