Re: [PATCH v2] ACPICA: Replace fake flexible arrays with flexible array members

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Jan 27 2023 - 15:00:46 EST


On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 8:16 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> One-element arrays (and multi-element arrays being treated as
> dynamically sized) are deprecated[1] and are being replaced with
> flexible array members in support of the ongoing efforts to tighten the
> FORTIFY_SOURCE routines on memcpy(), correctly instrument array indexing
> with UBSAN_BOUNDS, and to globally enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3.
>
> Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in struct
> acpi_resource_extended_irq. Replace 4-byte fixed-size array with 4-byte
> padding in a union with a flexible-array member in struct
> acpi_pci_routing_table.
>
> This results in no differences in binary output.
>
> Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/813
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: include stddef.h and switch to __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY()
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221118181538.never.225-kees@xxxxxxxxxx/
> ---
> include/acpi/acrestyp.h | 9 +++++++--
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/acpi/acrestyp.h b/include/acpi/acrestyp.h
> index a7fb8ddb3dc6..250046a7c870 100644
> --- a/include/acpi/acrestyp.h
> +++ b/include/acpi/acrestyp.h
> @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
> #ifndef __ACRESTYP_H__
> #define __ACRESTYP_H__
>
> +#include <linux/stddef.h>
> +
> /*
> * Definitions for Resource Attributes
> */
> @@ -332,7 +334,7 @@ struct acpi_resource_extended_irq {
> u8 wake_capable;
> u8 interrupt_count;
> struct acpi_resource_source resource_source;
> - u32 interrupts[1];
> + u32 interrupts[];
> };
>
> struct acpi_resource_generic_register {
> @@ -679,7 +681,10 @@ struct acpi_pci_routing_table {
> u32 pin;
> u64 address; /* here for 64-bit alignment */
> u32 source_index;
> - char source[4]; /* pad to 64 bits so sizeof() works in all cases */
> + union {
> + char pad[4]; /* pad to 64 bits so sizeof() works in all cases */
> + __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(char, source);
> + };
> };
>
> #endif /* __ACRESTYP_H__ */
> --

With this applied I get:

rafael@gratch:~/work/linux-pm/tools/power/acpi> make
DESCEND tools/acpidbg
MKDIR include
CP include
CC tools/acpidbg/acpidbg.o
In file included from
/scratch/rafael/work/linux-pm/tools/power/acpi/include/acpi/acpi.h:27:0,
from acpidbg.c:9:
/scratch/rafael/work/linux-pm/tools/power/acpi/include/acpi/acrestyp.h:686:3:
error: expected specif
ier-qualifier-list before ‘__DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY’
__DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(char, source);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[1]: *** [../../Makefile.rules:25:
/scratch/rafael/work/linux-pm/tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidbg/
acpidbg.o] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:18: acpidbg] Error 2

The tools build successfully without it.