Re: [PATCH v2][next] scsi: mpt3sas: Replace one-element array with flexible-array in struct _MPI2_CONFIG_PAGE_IO_UNIT_3

["Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>]

Hi all,

Friendly ping: who can review/take this, please?

Thanks!
--
Gustavo

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 05:51:18PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
> a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
> should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
> style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].
> 
> Refactor the code according to the use of a flexible-array member in
> struct _MPI2_CONFIG_PAGE_IO_UNIT_3, instead of a one-element array,
> and use the struct_size() helper to calculate the size for the
> allocation.
> 
> Also, this helps the ongoing efforts to enable -Warray-bounds and fix the
> following warnings:
> 
> drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c:3193:63: warning: array subscript 24
> is above array bounds of ‘U16[1]’ {aka ‘short unsigned int[1]’}
> [-Warray-bounds]
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>  - Fix format specifier: use %zu for size_t type.
> 
>  drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpi/mpi2_cnfg.h | 11 +----------
>  drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c   |  6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpi/mpi2_cnfg.h b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpi/mpi2_cnfg.h
> index 43a3bf8ff428..908b0ca63204 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpi/mpi2_cnfg.h
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpi/mpi2_cnfg.h
> @@ -987,21 +987,12 @@ typedef struct _MPI2_CONFIG_PAGE_IO_UNIT_1 {
>  
>  /*IO Unit Page 3 */
>  
> -/*
> - *Host code (drivers, BIOS, utilities, etc.) should leave this define set to
> - *one and check the value returned for GPIOCount at runtime.
> - */
> -#ifndef MPI2_IO_UNIT_PAGE_3_GPIO_VAL_MAX
> -#define MPI2_IO_UNIT_PAGE_3_GPIO_VAL_MAX    (1)
> -#endif
> -
>  typedef struct _MPI2_CONFIG_PAGE_IO_UNIT_3 {
>  	MPI2_CONFIG_PAGE_HEADER Header;			 /*0x00 */
>  	U8                      GPIOCount;		 /*0x04 */
>  	U8                      Reserved1;		 /*0x05 */
>  	U16                     Reserved2;		 /*0x06 */
> -	U16
> -		GPIOVal[MPI2_IO_UNIT_PAGE_3_GPIO_VAL_MAX];/*0x08 */
> +	U16			GPIOVal[];		 /*0x08 */
>  } MPI2_CONFIG_PAGE_IO_UNIT_3,
>  	*PTR_MPI2_CONFIG_PAGE_IO_UNIT_3,
>  	Mpi2IOUnitPage3_t, *pMpi2IOUnitPage3_t;
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c
> index c8a0ce18f2c5..ffb21f873058 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c
> @@ -3143,7 +3143,7 @@ BRM_status_show(struct device *cdev, struct device_attribute *attr,
>  	Mpi2ConfigReply_t mpi_reply;
>  	u16 backup_rail_monitor_status = 0;
>  	u16 ioc_status;
> -	int sz;
> +	size_t sz;
>  	ssize_t rc = 0;
>  
>  	if (!ioc->is_warpdrive) {
> @@ -3157,11 +3157,11 @@ BRM_status_show(struct device *cdev, struct device_attribute *attr,
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	/* allocate upto GPIOVal 36 entries */
> -	sz = offsetof(Mpi2IOUnitPage3_t, GPIOVal) + (sizeof(u16) * 36);
> +	sz = struct_size(io_unit_pg3, GPIOVal, 36);
>  	io_unit_pg3 = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!io_unit_pg3) {
>  		rc = -ENOMEM;
> -		ioc_err(ioc, "%s: failed allocating memory for iounit_pg3: (%d) bytes\n",
> +		ioc_err(ioc, "%s: failed allocating memory for iounit_pg3: (%zu) bytes\n",
>  			__func__, sz);
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.27.0
>