linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 00/10][next] scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members

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Message-ID: <202306281307.BB7B4369F@keescook>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:08:58 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     aacraid@...rosemi.com, "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10][next] scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element arrays
 with flexible-array members

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 11:53:45AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> This series aims to replace one-element arrays with flexible-array
> members in multiple structures in drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h.
> 
> This helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable -Warray-bounds
> and get us closer to being able to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE routines
> on memcpy().
> 
> These issues were found with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed,
> manually.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
> 
> Gustavo A. R. Silva (10):
>   scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
>   scsi: aacraid: Use struct_size() helper in aac_get_safw_ciss_luns()
>   scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
>     struct aac_aifcmd
>   scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
>     struct user_sgmapraw
>   scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
>     struct sgmapraw
>   scsi: aacraid: Use struct_size() helper in code related to struct
>     sgmapraw
>   scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
>     struct user_sgmap64
>   scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
>     struct sgmap
>   scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
>     struct sgmap64
>   scsi: aacraid: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
>     struct user_sgmap

I'd like to reorganize this series so that all the conversions are
first, and then struct_size() additions are at the end. That way, if
desired, the conversions can land as fixes to turn the Clang builds
green again.

-- 
Kees Cook