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

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Date:   Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:47:15 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:ACPI COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE (ACPICA)" <devel@...ica.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ACPICA: iASL: Replace zero-length array with
 flexible-array member

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 9:36 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 02:32:40PM -0600, 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].
> >
> > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> > [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/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>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

I've created an upstream ACPICA pull request for this change, thanks!