Re: [PATCH] wifi: brcmfmac: Annotate struct brcmf_gscan_config with __counted_by

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Fri Sep 15 2023 - 16:19:21 EST




On 9/15/23 14:05, 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_gscan_config.

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

Cc: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Franky Lin <franky.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ryohei Kondo <ryohei.kondo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

Thanks
--
Gustavo

---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h
index bece26741d3a..6eef6bc430e2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h
@@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ struct brcmf_gscan_config {
u8 count_of_channel_buckets;
u8 retry_threshold;
__le16 lost_ap_window;
- struct brcmf_gscan_bucket_config bucket[];
+ struct brcmf_gscan_bucket_config bucket[] __counted_by(count_of_channel_buckets);
};
/**