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

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Message-ID: <202301121417.EE86BDD5C@keescook>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:17:36 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Neal Liu <neal_liu@...eedtech.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
        linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] crypto: aspeed - Replace zero-length array with
 flexible-array member

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 07:39:17PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Zero-length arrays are deprecated[1] and we are moving towards
> adopting C99 flexible-array members instead. So, replace zero-length
> array declaration in struct aspeed_sham_ctx with flex-array
> member.
> 
> This helps with the ongoing efforts to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE
> routines on memcpy() and help us make progress towards globally
> enabling -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 [2].
> 
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays [1]
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [2]
> 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>

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Kees Cook