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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] carl9170: Replace zero-length array of trailing structs with flex-array
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:11:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221118211146.never.395-kees@kernel.org> (raw)

Zero-length arrays are deprecated[1] and are being replaced with
flexible array members in support of the ongoing efforts to tighten the
FORTIFY_SOURCE routines on memcpy(), correctly instrument array indexing
with UBSAN_BOUNDS, and to globally enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3.

Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member.

This results in no differences in binary output.

[1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78

Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h
index 4a500095555c..ff4b3b50250c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h
@@ -118,10 +118,10 @@ struct carl9170_reg_list {
 } __packed;
 
 struct carl9170_write_reg {
-	struct {
+	DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(struct {
 		__le32		addr;
 		__le32		val;
-	} regs[0] __packed;
+	} __packed, regs);
 } __packed;
 
 struct carl9170_write_reg_byte {
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-11-18 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-18 21:11 Kees Cook [this message]
2022-11-18 22:34 ` [PATCH] carl9170: Replace zero-length array of trailing structs with flex-array Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-11-18 22:54 ` Christian Lamparter
2022-11-19  6:39 ` Kalle Valo
2022-11-19  7:08   ` Kees Cook
2022-11-25 11:15 ` Kalle Valo

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