Re: [PATCH v3] staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: avoid NULL pointer dereference in rtw_cbuf_alloc

[Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 11:44:18AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 11:33:22AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Really _obj() can't be ZERO_SIZE_PTR either, or if they are then it's
> > very difficult to dereference them since they don't have any struct
> > members.
> > 
> > The main way that ZERO_SIZE_PTR bugs show up is with strings and NUL
> > terminators.
> 
> Wouldn't it be the problem for
> 
> struct foo {
> 	u32 baz[];
> };

There isn't really any difference between doing an out of bounds access
on an array with zero elements vs 10 elements.  That's the beauty of
the ZERO_SIZE_PTR is that it lets you treat zero as just another number
of elements.  But zero sizes can cause problems for code which does
things like "size - 1" but because of signedness that's ULONG_MAX.

regards,
dan carpenter