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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3][next] tty: tty_buffer: Avoid hundreds of -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:32:57 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55e010d1-4f98-40f1-b009-78580f895b86@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <daea13b0-137c-4ab5-8388-1d46919b8609@kernel.org>




> 
>> @@ -576,11 +579,14 @@ int tty_insert_flip_string_and_push_buffer(struct tty_port *port,
>>   void tty_buffer_init(struct tty_port *port)
>>   {
>>       struct tty_bufhead *buf = &port->buf;
>> +    struct tty_buffer *buf_sentinel;
>> +
>> +    buf_sentinel = container_of(&buf->sentinel, struct tty_buffer, hdr);
> 
> Bah, so this is ugly and even dangerous if someone adds a member to tty_buffer outside _hdr.
> 
> We should link headers in the list, it appears.

What should that patch look like?

--
Gustavo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-11  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-06  3:39 [PATCH v3][next] tty: tty_buffer: Avoid hundreds of -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-02-06  4:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-02-06 23:23   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-02-07  9:38     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-02-06  9:12 ` Jiri Slaby
2025-02-06  9:23   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-02-11  7:02   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]

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