Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] treewide: Replace 0-element memcpy() destinations with flexible arrays

From: Keith Packard
Date: Thu Aug 26 2021 - 01:24:41 EST


Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In some cases, use of the flex_array() helper is needed when a flexible
> array is part of a union.

The code below seems to show that the helper is also needed when the
flexible array is the only member of a struct? Or is this just an
extension of the 'part of a union' clause?

> @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ struct bmi_cmd {
>
> union bmi_resp {
> struct {
> - u8 payload[0];
> + DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(u8, payload);
> } read_mem;
> struct {
> __le32 result;

--
-keith

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