linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH][next] cifs: cifspdu.h: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

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Date:   Thu, 8 Apr 2021 23:23:06 -0500
From:   Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@...e.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        CIFS <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
        samba-technical <samba-technical@...ts.samba.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] cifs: cifspdu.h: Replace one-element array with
 flexible-array member

merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:02 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavo@...eddedor.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3/26/21 10:54, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> > "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org> writes:
> >> There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
> >> a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
> >> should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
> >> style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].
> >
> > I've checked the usages of the struct, looks OK (we don't allocate it
> > directly, we use memory from the small/big buff pools).
>
> Awesome. :)
>
> > Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@...e.com>
>
> Thank you, Aurelien.
> --
> Gustavo



-- 
Thanks,

Steve