[PATCH] wifi: wcn36xx: Annotate struct wcn36xx_hal_ind_msg with __counted_by

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo at embeddedor.com
Fri Sep 15 13:33:42 PDT 2023



On 9/15/23 14:06, 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 wcn36xx_hal_ind_msg.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
> 
> Cc: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain at linaro.org>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org>
> Cc: wcn36xx at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars at kernel.org>

Thanks
-- 
Gustavo

> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.h
> index cf15cde2a364..2c1ed9e570bf 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.h
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct wcn36xx_fw_msg_status_rsp {
>   struct wcn36xx_hal_ind_msg {
>   	struct list_head list;
>   	size_t msg_len;
> -	u8 msg[];
> +	u8 msg[] __counted_by(msg_len);
>   };
>   
>   struct wcn36xx;



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