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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>,
	VMware Graphics Reviewers  <linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] drm/vmwgfx: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 17:54:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <63dd4a3f.050a0220.fd05.3c7a@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y9xi7nFWRV3S9gCg@work>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 07:27:10PM -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 array with flexible-array
> member in struct vmw_view.
> 
> 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/254
> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-03 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-03  1:27 [PATCH][next] drm/vmwgfx: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-02-03 17:54 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-02-03 17:59 ` Zack Rusin

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