Re: [PATCH][next] wifi: cfg80211: Use __counted_by() in struct wmi_start_scan_cmd and avoid -Wfamnae warning

["Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>]

>> -	memset(&cmd, 0, sizeof(cmd));
>> -	cmd.cmd.scan_type = WMI_ACTIVE_SCAN;
>> -	cmd.cmd.num_channels = 0;
>> +	memset(cmd, 0, sizeof(*cmd));
> 
> Isn't this unnecessary since DEFINE_FLEX() logic "{ .obj.COUNTER = COUNT, }"
> should result in everything else being zeroed?
> 
> And if that isn't sufficient, DEFINE_FLEX() itself says we should "Use
> __struct_size(@NAME) to get compile-time size of it afterwards"
> 
> Note the current memset won't zero the flex array and hence if the actual
> number of channels is less than 4 then kernel stack contents could be exposed
> to firmware.

Yes, that's correct. The current memset() will only zero out a total of
sizeof(struct wmi_start_scan_cmd) bytes, which of course doesn't include
the flex-array member.

Thanks for the review, I'll remove that line!

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Gustavo