Re: [PATCH] wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix __counted_by usage in cfg80211_wowlan_nd_*

From: Kees Cook
Date: Sun Nov 17 2024 - 06:04:54 EST


On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 08:53:45PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Le 20/06/2024 à 20:08, Gustavo A. R. Silva a écrit :
> >
> >
> > On 6/20/24 12:02, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > >
> > > > My understanding is that 'match', is allocated by :
> > > >      match = kzalloc(struct_size(match, channels, n_channels),
> > > > GFP_KERNEL);
> > > >
> > > > So match->n_channels is *0* when iwl_mvm_query_set_freqs() is called.
> > >
> > > n_channels is updated in the line before calling kzalloc():
> > >
> > > n_channels = iwl_mvm_query_num_match_chans(mvm, d3_data->nd_results, i);
> > >
> > > match = kzalloc(struct_size(match, channels, n_channels), GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> > then match->n_channels updated here:
> >
> >          if (!match)
> >              goto out_report_nd;
> > +        match->n_channels = n_channels;
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
> This is what I was looking for, and I missed this line.
>
> Sorry for the noise.

Hi,

This patch is still needed and doesn't appear in -next (nor Linus's
tree). Should I resend it?

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook