* [PATCH] firewire: core: add __counted_by_ptr attribute to struct fw_device
@ 2026-09-25 21:25 Bill Wendling
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From: Bill Wendling @ 2026-09-25 21:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Takashi Sakamoto
Cc: Kees Cook, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Nathan Chancellor,
Nick Desaulniers, Justin Stitt, linux1394-devel, linux-kernel,
linux-hardening, llvm, Bill Wendling, codemender-patching+linux
The GCC and Clang attribute '__counted_by_ptr' associates a pointer
field with an integer field holding its element count. This enables
runtime bounds checking by KASAN and UBSAN to prevent out-of-bounds
accesses to the pointer.
In 'struct fw_device' (defined in 'include/linux/firewire.h'), the
field 'config_rom' is a pointer to the device's Configuration ROM data,
and its associated element count is stored in 'config_rom_length'.
Additionally, update the existing KUnit test in
'drivers/firewire/device-attribute-test.c' where 'config_rom_length'
was incorrectly initialized with the byte size
('sizeof(simple_avc_config_rom)') instead of the element count
('ARRAY_SIZE(simple_avc_config_rom)'). This ensures the
'__counted_by_ptr' bounds-checking annotation does not trigger any
false-positive panics or compile/runtime checks.
Cc: codemender-patching+linux@google.com
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
---
drivers/firewire/device-attribute-test.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/firewire.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/device-attribute-test.c b/drivers/firewire/device-attribute-test.c
index 97478a96d1c9..2c482afca8f1 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/device-attribute-test.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/device-attribute-test.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static void device_attr_simple_avc(struct kunit *test)
.type = &fw_device_type,
},
.config_rom = simple_avc_config_rom,
- .config_rom_length = sizeof(simple_avc_config_rom),
+ .config_rom_length = ARRAY_SIZE(simple_avc_config_rom),
};
static const struct fw_unit unit0 = {
.device = {
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static void device_attr_legacy_avc(struct kunit *test)
.type = &fw_device_type,
},
.config_rom = legacy_avc_config_rom,
- .config_rom_length = sizeof(legacy_avc_config_rom),
+ .config_rom_length = ARRAY_SIZE(legacy_avc_config_rom),
};
static const struct fw_unit unit0 = {
.device = {
diff --git a/include/linux/firewire.h b/include/linux/firewire.h
index fd35a6570cd8..2040b17d86fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/firewire.h
+++ b/include/linux/firewire.h
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ struct fw_device {
struct mutex client_list_mutex;
struct list_head client_list;
- const u32 *config_rom;
+ const u32 *config_rom __counted_by_ptr(config_rom_length);
size_t config_rom_length;
int config_rom_retries;
unsigned is_local:1;
--
2.56.0.rc1.315.gc6ed9934b7-goog
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