Re: [PATCH v2][next] Bluetooth: Avoid a couple dozen -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings

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

Hi all,

Friendly ping: who can take this, please? :)

Thanks!
-Gustavo

On 9/9/25 14:13, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end was introduced in GCC-14, and we are
> getting ready to enable it, globally.
> 
> Use the __struct_group() helper to fix 31 instances of the following
> type of warnings:
> 
> 30 net/bluetooth/mgmt_config.c:16:33: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]
> 1 net/bluetooth/mgmt_config.c:22:33: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>   - Use __struct_group() instead of TRAILING_OVERLAP().
> 
> v1:
>   - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/aLSCu8U62Hve7Dau@kspp/
> 
>   include/net/bluetooth/mgmt.h | 9 +++++++--
>   net/bluetooth/mgmt_config.c  | 4 ++--
>   2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/bluetooth/mgmt.h b/include/net/bluetooth/mgmt.h
> index 3575cd16049a..74edea06985b 100644
> --- a/include/net/bluetooth/mgmt.h
> +++ b/include/net/bluetooth/mgmt.h
> @@ -53,10 +53,15 @@ struct mgmt_hdr {
>   } __packed;
>   
>   struct mgmt_tlv {
> -	__le16 type;
> -	__u8   length;
> +	/* New members MUST be added within the __struct_group() macro below. */
> +	__struct_group(mgmt_tlv_hdr, __hdr, __packed,
> +		__le16 type;
> +		__u8   length;
> +	);
>   	__u8   value[];
>   } __packed;
> +static_assert(offsetof(struct mgmt_tlv, value) == sizeof(struct mgmt_tlv_hdr),
> +	      "struct member likely outside of __struct_group()");
>   
>   struct mgmt_addr_info {
>   	bdaddr_t	bdaddr;
> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/mgmt_config.c b/net/bluetooth/mgmt_config.c
> index 6ef701c27da4..c4063d200c0a 100644
> --- a/net/bluetooth/mgmt_config.c
> +++ b/net/bluetooth/mgmt_config.c
> @@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
>   
>   #define HDEV_PARAM_U16(_param_name_) \
>   	struct {\
> -		struct mgmt_tlv entry; \
> +		struct mgmt_tlv_hdr entry; \
>   		__le16 value; \
>   	} __packed _param_name_
>   
>   #define HDEV_PARAM_U8(_param_name_) \
>   	struct {\
> -		struct mgmt_tlv entry; \
> +		struct mgmt_tlv_hdr entry; \
>   		__u8 value; \
>   	} __packed _param_name_
>