From: <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: <nvdimm@lists.linux.dev>, <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4][for-next/hardening] acpi: nfit: intel: avoid multiple -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:17:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <685c91a8c3ed5_1608bd10024@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aFxtOLs6Yv_uzgt4@kspp>
Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end was introduced in GCC-14, and we are
> getting ready to enable it, globally.
>
> Use the new TRAILING_OVERLAP() helper to fix a dozen instances of
> the following type of warning:
>
> drivers/acpi/nfit/intel.c:692:35: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]
>
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Looks like our mails crossed [1], but I rushed this testing, apologies.
This patch does cause a regression, and the conversion is not equivalent
according to pahole:
union pkg_nd_intel_bus_fw_activate {
struct nd_cmd_pkg pkg; /* 0 64 */
struct {
u8 _offset_to_fam[64]; /* 0 64 */
/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
struct nd_intel_bus_fw_activate cmd; /* 64 5 */
} __attribute__((__packed__)); /* 0 69 */
};
struct pkg_nd_intel_bus_fw_activate2 {
struct nd_cmd_pkg pkg; /* 0 64 */
/* XXX last struct has a flexible array */
/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
struct nd_intel_bus_fw_activate cmd; /* 64 5 */
/* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 2 */
/* padding: 3 */
/* flexible array members: end: 1 */
/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};
Now, why the padding at the end matters for this test, I am still
trying to figure that out.
[1]: http://lore.kernel.org/685c772aa7cc1_23a2a10080@dwillia2-mobl4.notmuch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-26 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-25 21:42 [PATCH v4][for-next/hardening] acpi: nfit: intel: avoid multiple -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-06-26 0:17 ` dan.j.williams [this message]
2025-06-26 1:03 ` dan.j.williams
2025-06-27 15:52 ` Kees Cook
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