linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH][next] wifi: ath11k: Replace fake flex-array with flexible-array member

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Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:19:10 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, ath11k@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] wifi: ath11k: Replace fake flex-array with
 flexible-array member

"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org> wrote:

> Zero-length arrays as fake flexible arrays are deprecated and we are
> moving towards adopting C99 flexible-array members instead.
> 
> Address 25 of the following warnings found with GCC-13 and
> -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 enabled:
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/debugfs_htt_stats.c:30:51: warning: array subscript <unknown> is outside array bounds of ‘const u32[0]’ {aka ‘const unsigned int[]’} [-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/266
> 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>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@...cinc.com>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

3b1088a09ec9 wifi: ath11k: Replace fake flex-array with flexible-array member

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