Re: [PATCH] cxl/acpi: Annotate struct cxl_cxims_data with __counted_by

[Verma, Vishal L]

On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 10:53 -0700, 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 cxl_cxims_data.
> 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: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-cxl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/cxl/acpi.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/acpi.c b/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
> index d1c559879dcc..40d055560e52 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
>  
>  struct cxl_cxims_data {
>         int nr_maps;
> -       u64 xormaps[];
> +       u64 xormaps[] __counted_by(nr_maps);
>  };
>  
>  /*
> @@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ static int cxl_parse_cxims(union acpi_subtable_headers *header, void *arg,
>                               GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!cximsd)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> +       cximsd->nr_maps = nr_maps;
>         memcpy(cximsd->xormaps, cxims->xormap_list,
>                nr_maps * sizeof(*cximsd->xormaps));
> -       cximsd->nr_maps = nr_maps;
>         cxlrd->platform_data = cximsd;
>  
>         return 0;