From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
To: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>,
Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>,
Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>,
Chi-hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@infineon.com>,
Wright Feng <wright.feng@infineon.com>,
Chung-hsien Hsu <chung-hsien.hsu@infineon.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@infineon.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] brcmfmac: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:49:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220216194935.GA904103@embeddedor> (raw)
There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
no longer be used[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/xtlv.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h
index e69d1e56996f..c87b829adb0d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h
@@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ struct brcmf_mkeep_alive_pkt_le {
__le32 period_msec;
__le16 len_bytes;
u8 keep_alive_id;
- u8 data[0];
+ u8 data[];
} __packed;
#endif /* FWIL_TYPES_H_ */
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/xtlv.h b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/xtlv.h
index e1930ce1b642..b2c7ae8966a1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/xtlv.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/xtlv.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
struct brcmf_xtlv {
u16 id;
u16 len;
- u8 data[0];
+ u8 data[];
};
enum brcmf_xtlv_option {
--
2.27.0
next reply other threads:[~2022-02-16 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-16 19:49 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2022-02-16 20:34 ` [PATCH][next] brcmfmac: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members Kees Cook
2022-02-21 8:59 ` Kalle Valo
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