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Message-ID: <202301121448.59EDAA92FF@keescook>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:49:00 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] Bluetooth: HCI: Replace zero-length arrays with
flexible-array members
On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 07:37:52PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Zero-length arrays are deprecated[1] and we are moving towards
> adopting C99 flexible-array members instead. So, replace zero-length
> arrays in a couple of structures with flex-array members.
>
> 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 [2].
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays [1]
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [2]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Kees Cook
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