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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:37:27 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
To: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iio: gts-helper: add __counted_by_ptr to struct
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On Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:24:50 +0000
Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> wrote:

> The compiler attribute __counted_by_ptr can be used by KASAN and UBSAN
> to detect out-of-bounds accesses to pointer fields in structs where a
> corresponding element count field is available.
> 
> In "struct iio_gts", there are multiple pointer fields associated with
> an element count. This patch annotates these pointer fields with
> "__counted_by_ptr" to improve runtime safety:
> 
> - 'hwgain_table': counted by 'num_hwgain'
> - 'itime_table': counted by 'num_itime'
> - 'per_time_avail_scale_tables': counted by 'num_itime'
> - 'avail_all_scales_table': counted by 'num_avail_all_scales'
> - 'avail_time_tables': counted by 'num_avail_time_tables'
> 
> To ensure that the count is set correctly before any pointer is
> accessed or assigned, we update "iio_init_iio_gts()" to set the counts
> prior to assigning the pointers.
> 
> Cc: codemender-patching+linux@google.com
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
> Acked-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Applied to the testing branch of iio.git. So effectively queued for 7.4 merge
window.

Thanks,

Jonathan