[PATCH] mxser: Annotate struct mxser_board with __counted_by

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo at embeddedor.com
Sat Sep 23 09:36:23 PDT 2023



On 9/22/23 11:52, 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 mxser_board.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
> 
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby at kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
> Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx at nxp.com>
> Cc: linux-serial at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

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

Thanks
-- 
Gustavo

> ---
>   drivers/tty/mxser.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/mxser.c b/drivers/tty/mxser.c
> index 10aa4ed38793..6ce7f259968f 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/mxser.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/mxser.c
> @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ struct mxser_board {
>   	enum mxser_must_hwid must_hwid;
>   	speed_t max_baud;
>   
> -	struct mxser_port ports[];
> +	struct mxser_port ports[] __counted_by(nports);
>   };
>   
>   static DECLARE_BITMAP(mxser_boards, MXSER_BOARDS);



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