[PATCH] integrity: Annotate struct ima_rule_opt_list with __counted_by

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Fri Aug 18 12:46:10 UTC 2023


On Thu, 2023-08-17 at 14:03 -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 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 at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin at gmail.com>
> Cc: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com>
> Cc: linux-integrity at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>

-- 
thanks,

Mimi



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