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[next] x86/fpu: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

Message ID Y7zCFpa2XNs/o9YQ@work
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Gustavo A. R. Silva Jan. 10, 2023, 1:40 a.m. UTC 
  Zero-length arrays are deprecated[1] and we are moving towards
adopting C99 flexible-array members instead. So, replace zero-length
array declaration in struct xregs_state with flex-array member.

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@kernel.org>
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 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Kees Cook Jan. 12, 2023, 10:50 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 07:40:38PM -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
> array declaration in struct xregs_state with flex-array member.
> 
> 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@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
index eb7cd1139d97..7f6d858ff47a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@  struct xstate_header {
 struct xregs_state {
 	struct fxregs_state		i387;
 	struct xstate_header		header;
-	u8				extended_state_area[0];
+	u8				extended_state_area[];
 } __attribute__ ((packed, aligned (64)));
 
 /*