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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:41:16 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] uapi: net: ipv6: Replace fake flex-array with
 flex-array member

Zero-length arrays as fake flexible arrays are deprecated and we are
moving towards adopting C99 flexible-array members instead.

Address the following warning found with GCC-13 and
-fstrict-flex-arrays=3 enabled:
net/ipv6/exthdrs.c: In function ‘fl6_update_dst’:
net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:1393:28: warning: array subscript 0 is outside array bounds of ‘struct in6_addr[0]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
 1393 |                 fl6->daddr = *((struct rt0_hdr *)opt->srcrt)->addr;
      |                 ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ./include/linux/ipv6.h:5,
                 from ./include/linux/icmpv6.h:6,
                 from net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:27:
./include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h:84:33: note: while referencing ‘addr’
   84 |         struct in6_addr         addr[0];
      |                                 ^~~~
net/ipv6/exthdrs.c: In function ‘ipv6_push_rthdr0.isra’:
net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:1125:19: warning: array subscript <unknown> is outside array bounds of ‘struct in6_addr[0]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
 1125 |         phdr->addr[hops - 1] = **addr_p;
      |         ~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
./include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h:84:33: note: while referencing ‘addr’
   84 |         struct in6_addr         addr[0];
      |                                 ^~~~

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/276
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [1]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
---
 include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h b/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h
index 53326dfc59ec..ac56605fe9bc 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct ipv6_opt_hdr {
 struct rt0_hdr {
 	struct ipv6_rt_hdr	rt_hdr;
 	__u32			reserved;
-	struct in6_addr		addr[0];
+	struct in6_addr		addr[];
 
 #define rt0_type		rt_hdr.type
 };
-- 
2.34.1