linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] bcachefs: Annotate bch_replicas_entry_{v0,v1} with __counted

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Message-ID: <b7eqkyfv4nvxlserwuknw73y4c4n25b2i36xfsn4cfhjg4yc2n@oawo2z4ye6lo>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 18:56:41 -0400
From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...lux.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, 
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>, linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcachefs: Annotate bch_replicas_entry_{v0,v1} with
 __counted_by()

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 10:41:55PM GMT, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> On 25. Aug 2024, at 20:43, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 03:36:02PM GMT, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> >> Add the __counted_by compiler attribute to the flexible array members
> >> devs to improve access bounds-checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and
> >> CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
> >> 
> >> Increment nr_devs before adding a new device to the devs array and
> >> adjust the array indexes accordingly.
> > 
> > The nr_devs changes are pretty gross - please add a helper for that
> 
> How about a macro in replicas_format.h like this:
> 
> #define replicas_entry_add_dev(e, d) ({
> 	(e)->nr_devs++;
> 	(e)->devs[(e)->nr_devs - 1] = (d);
> })

Does it need to be a macro?