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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] block: scsi_ioctl: Avoid the use of one-element arrays
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 17:53:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea92a55b-d12c-357e-62b2-879643ae18ce@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201002231033.GA6273@embeddedor>

On 10/2/20 5:10 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h b/include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h
> index 2817230148fd..6c34f6e2f1f7 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h
> @@ -289,7 +289,10 @@ struct cdrom_generic_command
>  	unsigned char		data_direction;
>  	int			quiet;
>  	int			timeout;
> -	void			__user *reserved[1];	/* unused, actually */
> +	union {
> +		void		__user *reserved[1];	/* unused, actually */
> +		void            __user *unused;
> +	};

What's the point of this union, why not just turn it into

	void *			__user *unused;

?

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-02 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-02 23:10 [PATCH][next] block: scsi_ioctl: Avoid the use of one-element arrays Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-10-02 23:53 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-10-03  0:03   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-10-02 23:58     ` Jens Axboe
2020-10-03  0:07       ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-10-05  7:25 ` Christoph Hellwig

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