Re: [PATCH] integrity: Annotate struct ima_rule_opt_list with __counted_by

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Thu Aug 17 2023 - 17:20:35 EST




On 8/17/23 15:03, 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 ima_rule_opt_list.
Additionally, since the element count member must be set before accessing
the annotated flexible array member, move its initialization earlier.

[1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci

Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-integrity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-security-module@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
--
Gustavo

---
security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
index 69452b79686b..f69062617754 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ enum policy_rule_list { IMA_DEFAULT_POLICY = 1, IMA_CUSTOM_POLICY };
struct ima_rule_opt_list {
size_t count;
- char *items[];
+ char *items[] __counted_by(count);
};
/*
@@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ static struct ima_rule_opt_list *ima_alloc_rule_opt_list(const substring_t *src)
kfree(src_copy);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
+ opt_list->count = count;
/*
* strsep() has already replaced all instances of '|' with '\0',
@@ -357,7 +358,6 @@ static struct ima_rule_opt_list *ima_alloc_rule_opt_list(const substring_t *src)
opt_list->items[i] = cur;
cur = strchr(cur, '\0') + 1;
}
- opt_list->count = count;
return opt_list;
}