[PATCH][next] scsi: smartpqi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Aug 10 2021 - 17:05:04 EST


There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].

Refactor the code a bit according to the use of a flexible-array member
in struct pqi_event_config instead of a one-element array, and use the
struct_size() helper.

This helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable -Warray-bounds
and get us closer to being able to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE routines
on memcpy().

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed,
manually.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi.h | 2 +-
drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c | 3 +--
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi.h b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi.h
index f340afc011b5..70eca203d72f 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi.h
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ struct pqi_event_config {
u8 reserved[2];
u8 num_event_descriptors;
u8 reserved1;
- struct pqi_event_descriptor descriptors[1];
+ struct pqi_event_descriptor descriptors[];
};

#define PQI_MAX_EVENT_DESCRIPTORS 255
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
index c1f0f8da9fe2..f9107127bd6e 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
@@ -4740,8 +4740,7 @@ static int pqi_create_queues(struct pqi_ctrl_info *ctrl_info)
}

#define PQI_REPORT_EVENT_CONFIG_BUFFER_LENGTH \
- (offsetof(struct pqi_event_config, descriptors) + \
- (PQI_MAX_EVENT_DESCRIPTORS * sizeof(struct pqi_event_descriptor)))
+ struct_size((struct pqi_event_config *)0, descriptors, PQI_MAX_EVENT_DESCRIPTORS)

static int pqi_configure_events(struct pqi_ctrl_info *ctrl_info,
bool enable_events)
--
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