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Message-ID: <ZAdao7B1yeXy0OWH@corigine.com>
Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2023 16:39:15 +0100
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>,
        Rahul Verma <rahulv@...vell.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] netxen_nic: Replace fake flex-array with
 flexible-array member

On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 05:40:28PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Zero-length arrays as fake flexible arrays are deprecated and we are
> moving towards adopting C99 flexible-array members instead.
> 
> Transform zero-length array into flexible-array member in struct
> nx_cardrsp_rx_ctx_t.
> 
> Address the following warnings found with GCC-13 and
> -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 enabled:
> drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_ctx.c:361:26: warning: array subscript <unknown> is outside array bounds of ‘char[0]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
> drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_ctx.c:372:25: warning: array subscript <unknown> is outside array bounds of ‘char[0]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
> 
> 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 [1].
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/265
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [1]
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>