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Message-ID: <6a6fff5b-f060-2d31-976d-9eea491bffae@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:24:35 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.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 6/7] wifi: cfg80211: Annotate struct cfg80211_scan_request
 with __counted_by



On 8/17/23 15:15, 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_scan_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: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>

Thanks
--
Gustavo

> ---
>   include/net/cfg80211.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
> index 6efe216c01d2..a2afc94a5408 100644
> --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
> +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
> @@ -2544,7 +2544,7 @@ struct cfg80211_scan_request {
>   	struct cfg80211_scan_6ghz_params *scan_6ghz_params;
>   
>   	/* keep last */
> -	struct ieee80211_channel *channels[];
> +	struct ieee80211_channel *channels[] __counted_by(n_channels);
>   };
>   
>   static inline void get_random_mask_addr(u8 *buf, const u8 *addr, const u8 *mask)

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