Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 21:45 +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> FWWIW, it seems unfortunate to me that the __counted_by field (n_channels)
> is set some distance away from the allocation of the flex-array (channels)
> whose bounds it checks. It seems it would be pretty easy for a bug in the
> code being updated here to result in an overrun.
> 

In a way, this is a more general problem, this allocates the max we know
we might need, but then filter it down. It'd have to iterate twice to
actually allocate the "correct" size, but then you could still have bugs
by having different filter conditions in the two loops ...

Don't see any good solutions to this kind of code?

johannes