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Message-ID: <202211172022.43C0478D6@keescook>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:23:06 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hpet: Replace one-element array with flexible-array
member
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 09:54:04PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 07:42:55PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > One-element arrays are deprecated[1] and are being replaced with
> > flexible array members in support of the ongoing efforts to tighten the
> > FORTIFY_SOURCE routines on memcpy(), correctly instrument array indexing
> > with UBSAN_BOUNDS, and to globally enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3.
> >
> > Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in struct hpet.
> >
> > This results in no differences in binary output. The use of struct hpet
> > is never used with sizeof() and accesses via hpet_timers array are
> > already done after explicit bounds checking.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
> >
> > Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>
> > Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>
> Such a sneaky 1-element... ~.~
Yes! This one made my system unbootable after adding
-fstrict-flex-arrays=3. :) All better now.
> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Thanks!
--
Kees Cook
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