From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>, Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ocfs2: Replace zero-length arrays with DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 19:48:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3b32e71-a345-40d3-feee-fa4c5aab42af@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YxKY6O2hmdwNh8r8@work>
On 9/3/22 7:59 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Zero-length arrays are deprecated and we are moving towards adopting
> C99 flexible-array members, instead. So, replace zero-length array
> declarations in a couple of structures and unions with the new
> DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper macro.
>
> This helper allows for a flexible-array member in a union and as
> only member in a structure.
>
> Also, this addresses multiple warnings reported when building with
> Clang-15 and -Wzero-length-array.
>
> Lastly, this will also help memcpy (in a coming hardening update)
> execute proper bounds-checking on variable length object i_symlink
> at fs/ocfs2/namei.c:1973:
>
> fs/ocfs2/namei.c:
> 1973 memcpy((char *) fe->id2.i_symlink, symname, l);
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/193
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/197
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-03 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-02 23:59 [PATCH][next] ocfs2: Replace zero-length arrays with DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-09-03 5:12 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-03 11:48 ` Joseph Qi [this message]
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