linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/14] net: openvswitch: Annotate struct dp_meter_instance with __counted

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Message-ID: <b729889b-2988-5b94-de11-d393da39187e@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Sep 2023 19:56:27 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dev@...nvswitch.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...nel.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
        Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] net: openvswitch: Annotate struct dp_meter_instance
 with __counted_by



On 9/22/23 11:28, 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 dp_meter_instance.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
> 
> Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>
> 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: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: dev@...nvswitch.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

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

Thanks
-- 
Gustavo

> ---
>   net/openvswitch/meter.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/meter.h b/net/openvswitch/meter.h
> index 0c33889a8515..013de694221f 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/meter.h
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/meter.h
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct dp_meter {
>   struct dp_meter_instance {
>   	struct rcu_head rcu;
>   	u32 n_meters;
> -	struct dp_meter __rcu *dp_meters[];
> +	struct dp_meter __rcu *dp_meters[] __counted_by(n_meters);
>   };
>   
>   struct dp_meter_table {