netdev - Re: [PATCH] netem: Annotate struct disttable with __counted

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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 20:32:40 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, Cong Wang
 <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, "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, "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] netem: Annotate struct disttable with __counted_by

On Tue,  3 Oct 2023 16:18:23 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> 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 disttable.
> 
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> 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
> Link: https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci [1]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>

PS: size is intended wrong in original code but that is not important.
Should have lined up with table[].