netdev - [PATCH net-next 6/8] wifi: brcmfmac: work around a GCC 12 -Warray-bounds warning

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Message-Id: <20220520194320.2356236-7-kuba@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 20 May 2022 12:43:18 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     kvalo@...nel.org, johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, aspriel@...il.com,
        franky.lin@...adcom.com, hante.meuleman@...adcom.com,
        ALSI@...g-olufsen.dk, brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com,
        SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@...ineon.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next 6/8] wifi: brcmfmac: work around a GCC 12 -Warray-bounds warning

GCC 12 really doesn't like partial struct allocations:

drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c:2202:32: warning: array subscript ‘struct brcmf_ext_join_params_le[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘void[70]’ [-Warray-bounds]
 2202 |                 ext_join_params->scan_le.passive_time =
      |                                ^~

brcmfmac is trying to save 2 bytes at the end by either allocating
or not allocating a channel member. Let's keep @join_params_size
the "right" size but kmalloc() the full structure.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
---
CC: aspriel@...il.com
CC: franky.lin@...adcom.com
CC: hante.meuleman@...adcom.com
CC: kvalo@...nel.org
CC: ALSI@...g-olufsen.dk
CC: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
CC: brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com
CC: SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@...ineon.com
---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 360b103fe898..605206abe424 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -2167,7 +2167,7 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_connect(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
 		offsetof(struct brcmf_assoc_params_le, chanspec_list);
 	if (cfg->channel)
 		join_params_size += sizeof(u16);
-	ext_join_params = kzalloc(join_params_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ext_join_params = kzalloc(sizeof(*ext_join_params), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ext_join_params == NULL) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto done;
-- 
2.34.3