Re: [PATCH][next] rtlwifi: Replace fake flex-array with flex-array member

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Thu Mar 30 2023 - 16:04:17 EST


Hi all,

Friendly ping: who can take this, please? :)

Thanks
--
Gustavo

On 3/23/23 19:11, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
Zero-length arrays as fake flexible arrays are deprecated and we are
moving towards adopting C99 flexible-array members instead.

Address the following warning found with GCC-13 and
-fstrict-flex-arrays=3 enabled:
In function ‘fortify_memset_chk’,
inlined from ‘rtl_usb_probe’ at drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c:1044:2:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:430:25: warning: call to ‘__write_overflow_field’ declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning]
430 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 [1].

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/277
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [1]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h
index 31f9e9e5c680..082af216760f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h
@@ -2831,7 +2831,7 @@ struct rtl_priv {
* beyond this structure like:
* rtl_pci_priv or rtl_usb_priv
*/
- u8 priv[0] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
+ u8 priv[] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
};
#define rtl_priv(hw) (((struct rtl_priv *)(hw)->priv))