On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 01:13:10PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET 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).
> 
> To do so, the code needs a little shuffling related to how hw_desc is used
> and nb_desc incremented.
> 
> The one by one increment is needed for the error handling path, calling
> pxad_free_desc(), to work correctly.
> 
> So, add a new intermediate variable, desc, to store the result of the
> dma_pool_alloc() call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>

Thanks! Yeah, this looks like a sensible refactor to handle the
increment before array assignment without losing error checking.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

-Kees

> ---
> This patch is part of a work done in parallel of what is currently worked
> on by Kees Cook.
> 
> My patches are only related to corner cases that do NOT match the
> semantic of his Coccinelle script[1].
> 
> [1] 
> https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci
> ---
>  drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c b/drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c
> index 94cef2905940..c6e2862896e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c
> @@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ struct pxad_desc_sw {
>       bool                    cyclic;
>       struct dma_pool         *desc_pool;     /* Channel's used allocator */
>  
> -     struct pxad_desc_hw     *hw_desc[];     /* DMA coherent descriptors */
> +     struct pxad_desc_hw     *hw_desc[] __counted_by(nb_desc);
> +                                             /* DMA coherent descriptors */
>  };
>  
>  struct pxad_phy {
> @@ -739,6 +740,7 @@ pxad_alloc_desc(struct pxad_chan *chan, unsigned int 
> nb_hw_desc)
>  {
>       struct pxad_desc_sw *sw_desc;
>       dma_addr_t dma;
> +     void *desc;
>       int i;
>  
>       sw_desc = kzalloc(struct_size(sw_desc, hw_desc, nb_hw_desc),
> @@ -748,20 +750,21 @@ pxad_alloc_desc(struct pxad_chan *chan, unsigned int 
> nb_hw_desc)
>       sw_desc->desc_pool = chan->desc_pool;
>  
>       for (i = 0; i < nb_hw_desc; i++) {
> -             sw_desc->hw_desc[i] = dma_pool_alloc(sw_desc->desc_pool,
> -                                                  GFP_NOWAIT, &dma);
> -             if (!sw_desc->hw_desc[i]) {
> +             desc = dma_pool_alloc(sw_desc->desc_pool, GFP_NOWAIT, &dma);
> +             if (!desc) {
>                       dev_err(&chan->vc.chan.dev->device,
>                               "%s(): Couldn't allocate the %dth hw_desc from 
> dma_pool %p\n",
>                               __func__, i, sw_desc->desc_pool);
>                       goto err;
>               }
>  
> +             sw_desc->nb_desc++;
> +             sw_desc->hw_desc[i] = desc;
> +
>               if (i == 0)
>                       sw_desc->first = dma;
>               else
>                       sw_desc->hw_desc[i - 1]->ddadr = dma;
> -             sw_desc->nb_desc++;
>       }
>  
>       return sw_desc;
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 

-- 
Kees Cook

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