linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v2] sparc: Replace one-element array with flexible array member

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Message-ID: <c2e1273d-00b0-4cf5-b315-46413153110b@gaisler.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:26:29 +0100
From: Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
 Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sparc: Replace one-element array with flexible array
 member

On 2024-11-12 12:03, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> On 11. Nov 2024, at 21:47, Thorsten Blum wrote:
>> Replace the deprecated one-element array with a modern flexible array
>> member in the struct hvtramp_descr.
>>
>> Additionally, 15 unnecessary bytes were allocated for hdesc, but instead
>> of fixing the parentheses in the open-coded version, use struct_size()
>> to calculate the correct number of bytes.
>>
>> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
>> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
>> ---
> 
> If this justifies a Fixes: tag, it should probably be:
> 
> Fixes: 64658743fdd4 ("[SPARC64]: Remove most limitations to kernel image size.")

Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>

Picking this up to my for-next.

Thanks,
Andreas