netdev - Re: [PATCH] nexthop: Annotate struct nh_notifier_grp_info with __counted

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Message-ID: <5af06f3c-bc84-b73d-d7f7-a1154a5a84e1@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 17:37:00 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
 "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nexthop: Annotate struct nh_notifier_grp_info with
 __counted_by

On 10/3/23 5:21 PM, 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 nh_notifier_grp_info.
> 
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...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: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> Cc: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: llvm@...ts.linux.dev
> Link: https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci [1]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> ---
>  include/net/nexthop.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>