linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Annotate struct port_buffer with __counted

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Message-ID: <e76a0e1a-3afd-d77c-c716-edd285506fe5@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:32:26 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Amit Shah <amit@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.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] virtio_console: Annotate struct port_buffer with
 __counted_by



On 9/22/23 11:51, 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 port_buffer.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
> 
> Cc: Amit Shah <amit@...nel.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>

Thanks
-- 
Gustavo

> ---
>   drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> index 680d1ef2a217..431e9e5bf9c1 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct port_buffer {
>   	unsigned int sgpages;
>   
>   	/* sg is used if spages > 0. sg must be the last in is struct */
> -	struct scatterlist sg[];
> +	struct scatterlist sg[] __counted_by(sgpages);
>   };
>   
>   /*