linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: Annotate struct kvm_irq_routing_table with __counted

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Message-ID: <e8ff2426-66dc-3357-da9f-af818720b2a0@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:32:36 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...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] KVM: Annotate struct kvm_irq_routing_table 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 kvm_irq_routing_table.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
> 
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

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

Thanks
-- 
Gustavo

> ---
>   include/linux/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> index fb6c6109fdca..4944136efaa2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ struct kvm_irq_routing_table {
>   	 * Array indexed by gsi. Each entry contains list of irq chips
>   	 * the gsi is connected to.
>   	 */
> -	struct hlist_head map[];
> +	struct hlist_head map[] __counted_by(nr_rt_entries);
>   };
>   #endif
>