From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@marvell.com,
Nilesh Javali <njavali@marvell.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2][next] scsi: qla2xxx: Replace one-element array with DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 23:09:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202211182309.E0127C6A0@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <faa40e6b31ecc9387ad1644bb1957aa53d7c682f.1668814746.git.gustavoars@kernel.org>
On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 05:47:13PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> One-element arrays as fake flex arrays are deprecated and we are moving
> towards adopting C99 flexible-array members, instead. So, replace
> one-element array declaration in struct ct_sns_gpnft_rsp, which is
> ultimately being used inside a union:
>
> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_def.h:
> 3240 struct ct_sns_gpnft_pkt {
> 3241 union {
> 3242 struct ct_sns_req req;
> 3243 struct ct_sns_gpnft_rsp rsp;
> 3244 } p;
> 3245 };
>
> Important to mention is that doing a build before/after this patch results
> in no binary differences.
>
> This help us make progress towards globally enabling
> -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 [1].
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/245
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/193
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [1]
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-19 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-18 23:46 [PATCH 0/2][next] scsi: qla2xxx: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-11-18 23:47 ` [PATCH 1/2][next] scsi: qla2xxx: Replace one-element array with DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-11-19 7:09 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2022-11-19 8:44 ` Christophe JAILLET
2022-11-19 8:56 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-11-19 10:23 ` Christophe JAILLET
2022-11-19 19:03 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-11-18 23:47 ` [PATCH 2/2][next] scsi: qla2xxx: Use struct_size() in code related to struct ct_sns_gpnft_rsp Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-11-19 7:10 ` Kees Cook
2022-11-19 7:20 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-11-19 7:49 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
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