Re: [PATCH][next] cifs: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members

From: Steve French
Date: Sat Jan 14 2023 - 13:12:46 EST


merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 4:52 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 07:39:00PM -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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> --
> Kees Cook



--
Thanks,

Steve