2023-09-20 15:41:36

by Matthias Brugger

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: brcmfmac: firmware: Annotate struct brcmf_fw_request with __counted_by



On 15/09/2023 22:05, 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 brcmf_fw_request.
>
> [1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
>
> Cc: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
> Cc: Franky Lin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hante Meuleman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
> Cc: Matthias Brugger <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hector Martin <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Alvin Šipraga" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <[email protected]>

> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.h b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.h
> index 1266cbaee072..4002d326fd21 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.h
> @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ struct brcmf_fw_request {
> u16 bus_nr;
> u32 n_items;
> const char *board_types[BRCMF_FW_MAX_BOARD_TYPES];
> - struct brcmf_fw_item items[];
> + struct brcmf_fw_item items[] __counted_by(n_items);
> };
>
> struct brcmf_fw_name {