[PATCH] ima: Add __counted_by for struct modsig and use struct_size()

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Wed Oct 18 18:16:18 UTC 2023


On Mon, 2023-10-09 at 13:52 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva 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 via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS (for
> array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for strcpy/memcpy-family
> functions).
> 
> Also, relocate `hdr->raw_pkcs7_len = sig_len;` so that the __counted_by
> annotation has effect, and flex-array member `raw_pkcs7` can be properly
> bounds-checked at run-time.
> 
> While there, use struct_size() helper, instead of the open-coded
> version, to calculate the size for the allocation of the whole
> flexible structure, including of course, the flexible-array member.
> 
> This code was found with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
> fixed manually.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars at kernel.org>

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



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