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Message-ID: <168027419512.32751.3442996258491675750.kvalo@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:49:57 +0000 (UTC)
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@...ltek.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [next] wifi: rtlwifi: Replace fake flex-array with flex-array
member
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org> wrote:
> Zero-length arrays as fake flexible arrays are deprecated and we are
> moving towards adopting C99 flexible-array members instead.
>
> Address the following warning found with GCC-13 and
> -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 enabled:
> In function ‘fortify_memset_chk’,
> inlined from ‘rtl_usb_probe’ at drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c:1044:2:
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:430:25: warning: call to ‘__write_overflow_field’ declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning]
> 430 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 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 [1].
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/277
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [1]
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
> Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@...ltek.com>
Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.
82d6077901c6 wifi: rtlwifi: Replace fake flex-array with flex-array member
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