netdev - Re: [PATCH v2][next] Bluetooth: hci_conn: Use __counted_by() in struct hci_cp_le_big_create

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Message-ID: <202404261024.1F22CC68@keescook>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:25:06 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
	Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2][next] Bluetooth: hci_conn: Use __counted_by() in
 struct hci_cp_le_big_create_sync and avoid -Wfamnae warning

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 10:45:17AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva 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).
> 
> Also, -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end is coming in GCC-14, and we are
> getting ready to enable it globally.
> 
> So, use the `DEFINE_FLEX()` helper for an on-stack definition of
> a flexible structure where the size of the flexible-array member
> is known at compile-time, and refactor the rest of the code,
> accordingly.
> 
> With these changes, fix the following warning:
> net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:2116:50: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/202
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>

Looks right to me. Yay for DEFINE_FLEX(). :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

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Kees Cook