linux-hardening - RE: [EXT] [PATCH] media: amphion: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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Date:   Mon, 30 May 2022 05:15:37 +0000
From:   Ming Qian <ming.qian@....com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
CC:     Shijie Qin <shijie.qin@....com>, Eagle Zhou <eagle.zhou@....com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        "linux-media@...r.kernel.org" <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@...labora.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [EXT] [PATCH] media: amphion: Replace zero-length array with
 flexible-array member

> From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Sent: 2022年5月28日 5:30
> To: Ming Qian <ming.qian@....com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>; Shijie Qin <shijie.qin@....com>;
> Eagle Zhou <eagle.zhou@....com>; Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> <mchehab@...nel.org>; Gustavo A . R . Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>;
> linux-media@...r.kernel.org; Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>; Nicolas
> Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@...labora.com>; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: [EXT] [PATCH] media: amphion: Replace zero-length array with
> flexible-array member
> 
> Caution: EXT Email
> 
> 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][3].
> 
> [1]
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> pedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFlexible_array_member&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cming.q
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> 
> Fixes: 9f599f351e86 ("media: amphion: add vpu core driver")
> Cc: Ming Qian <ming.qian@....com>
> Cc: Shijie Qin <shijie.qin@....com>
> Cc: Zhou Peng <eagle.zhou@....com>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
> Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
> Cc: linux-media@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Reviewed-by: ming_qian <ming.qian@....com>

> ---
>  drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_dbg.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_dbg.c
> b/drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_dbg.c
> index da62bd718fb8..f72c8a506b22 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_dbg.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_dbg.c
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ struct print_buf_desc {
>         u32 bytes;
>         u32 read;
>         u32 write;
> -       char buffer[0];
> +       char buffer[];
>  };
> 
>  static char *vb2_stat_name[] = {
> --
> 2.32.0