Re: [PATCH] RDMA/core: Use flexible array for mad data

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 01:26:15PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
> field bounds checking for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset(), avoid
> intentionally read across neighboring array fields.
> 
> Without a flexible array, this looks like an attempt to perform a
> memcpy() read beyond the end of the packet->mad.data array:
> 
> drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c:
> 	memcpy(packet->msg->mad, packet->mad.data, IB_MGMT_MAD_HDR);
> 
> Switch from [0] to [] to use the appropriately handled type for trailing
> bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
>  include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_mad.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to for-next, thanks

Jason