linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH][next] ALSA: virtio: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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Date:   Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:48:15 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Anton Yakovlev <anton.yakovlev@...nsynergy.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ALSA: virtio: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:15:04 +0200,
Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 
> 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].
> 
> Also, make use of the struct_size() helper in kzalloc().
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>

Thanks, applied.


Takashi