Re: [PATCH] scripts/dtc: Replace 0-length arrays with flexible arrays

From: Rob Herring
Date: Sun Jan 29 2023 - 16:20:47 EST


On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 6:24 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 04:12:21PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 05:44:13PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 4:41 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Replace the 0-length array with a C99 flexible array. Seen with GCC 13
> > > > under -fstrict-flex-arrays:
> > > >
> > > > In file included from ../lib/fdt_ro.c:2:
> > > > ../lib/../scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_ro.c: In function 'fdt_get_name':
> > > > ../lib/../scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt_ro.c:319:24: warning: 'strrchr' reading 1 or more bytes from a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overread]
> > > > 319 | leaf = strrchr(nameptr, '/');
> > > > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > >
> > > > Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt.h | 4 ++--
> > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Changes to dtc/libfdt go to upstream dtc first and then we sync them back.
> >
> > Ah-ha, I've found it: https://github.com/dgibson/dtc
>
> Sent upstream: https://github.com/dgibson/dtc/pull/76

Maybe David will take that PR, but upstream is here[1]. Patches go to
devicetree-compiler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

Rob

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git