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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@broadcom.com>,
	James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2][next] scsi: lpfc: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 13:46:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d298c36-cdd8-62bd-2fef-c2ce63e662ef@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202305231031.C9E6124@keescook>



On 5/23/23 11:31, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 06:02:21PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>
>> Gustavo,
>>
>>> One-element arrays are deprecated, and we are replacing them with flexible
>>> array members instead. So, replace one-element arrays with flexible-array
>>> members in a couple of structures, and refactor the rest of the code,
>>> accordingly.
>>>
>>> This helps with the ongoing efforts to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE
>>> routines on memcpy() and help us make progress towards globally
>>> enabling -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 [1].
>>>
>>> This results in no differences in binary output.
>>
>> Applied to 6.5/scsi-staging, thanks!
> 
> Martin, I think this patch is not right -- can you drop this from
> staging for the moment?

Martin just took patch 1/2, which is correct:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/commit/?h=6.5/scsi-staging&id=e90644b0ce2d700a65579ac74ff594414e8ba30f

--
Gustavo

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-23 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-17 21:22 [PATCH 0/2][next] scsi: lpfc: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-05-17 21:22 ` [PATCH 1/2][next] " Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-05-17 23:02   ` Kees Cook
2023-05-22 22:02   ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-05-22 22:12     ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-05-23 17:31     ` Kees Cook
2023-05-23 19:46       ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2023-05-23 20:29         ` Kees Cook
2023-05-17 21:23 ` [PATCH 2/2][next] scsi: lpfc: Use struct_size() helper Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-05-17 23:01   ` Kees Cook
2023-05-23 14:41     ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-05-23 17:27       ` Kees Cook
2023-06-01  0:43 ` [PATCH 0/2][next] scsi: lpfc: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member Martin K. Petersen

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