From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.k.varbanov@gmail.com>,
Vikash Garodia <quic_vgarodia@quicinc.com>,
Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>,
Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] media: venus: Replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members
Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 13:18:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202305161318.4AF9203EB@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZGPk3PpvYzjD1+0/@work>
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 02:17:32PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 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 multiple 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.
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/291
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [1]
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Oh fun, a subtraction variant! :)
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Kees Cook
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2023-05-16 20:17 [PATCH][next] media: venus: Replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-05-16 20:18 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-05-17 3:44 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-05-25 11:20 ` Vikash Garodia
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