netdev - Re: [PATCH][next] net: sundance: Replace one-element array with non-array object

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Date:   Fri, 4 Feb 2022 19:40:13 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] net: sundance: Replace one-element array with
 non-array object

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 17:29:06 -0600 Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> It seems this one-element array is not actually being used as an
> array of variable size, so we can just replace it with just a
> non-array object of type struct desc_frag and refactor a bit the
> rest of the code.
> 
> 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().
> 
> This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed,
> manually.
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>