linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] landlock: Annotate struct landlock_rule with __counted

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Message-ID: <CAFhGd8qiOQkYB=rW5F6=jp4piwoXvJfnM=ncCzpwK6jauL-huA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:10:37 -0700
From:   Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        linux-security-module@...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] landlock: Annotate struct landlock_rule with __counted_by

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 2:03 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> 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 landlock_rule.
>
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
>
> Cc: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@...ikod.net>
> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
> Cc: linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>

> ---
>  security/landlock/ruleset.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/landlock/ruleset.h b/security/landlock/ruleset.h
> index d43231b783e4..55b1df8f66a8 100644
> --- a/security/landlock/ruleset.h
> +++ b/security/landlock/ruleset.h
> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct landlock_rule {
>          * @layers: Stack of layers, from the latest to the newest, implemented
>          * as a flexible array member (FAM).
>          */
> -       struct landlock_layer layers[];
> +       struct landlock_layer layers[] __counted_by(num_layers);
>  };
>
>  /**
> --
> 2.34.1
>