netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Annotate struct mlx5_flow_handle with __counted

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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 21:45:27 +0300
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
	Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Annotate struct mlx5_flow_handle with
 __counted_by

On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 04:17:30PM -0700, 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 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 mlx5_flow_handle.
> 
> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.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: linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
> Link: https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci [1]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>