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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, ;
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] uapi: wireless: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:53:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220216195306.GA904220@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>
---
 include/uapi/linux/wireless.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h b/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h
index 08967b3f19c8..3c2ad5fae17f 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/wireless.h
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ struct iw_encode_ext {
 			       * individual keys */
 	__u16		alg; /* IW_ENCODE_ALG_* */
 	__u16		key_len;
-	__u8		key[0];
+	__u8		key[];
 };
 
 /* SIOCSIWMLME data */
-- 
2.27.0


             reply	other threads:[~2022-02-16 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-16 19:53 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2022-02-16 20:36 ` [PATCH] uapi: wireless: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member Kees Cook
2022-03-26  0:42   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva

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