Re: [PATCH] vboxsf: Use flexible arrays for trailing string member

From: Larry Finger
Date: Tue Aug 08 2023 - 17:20:22 EST


On 7/26/23 16:55, Kees Cook wrote:

On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 08:15:06 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
The declaration of struct shfl_string used trailing fake flexible arrays
for the string member. This was tripping FORTIFY_SOURCE since commit
df8fc4e934c1 ("kbuild: Enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3"). Replace the
utf8 and utf16 members with actual flexible arrays, drop the unused ucs2
member, and retriain a 2 byte padding to keep the structure size the same.


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Applied to for-linus/hardening, thanks!

[1/1] vboxsf: Use flexible arrays for trailing string member
https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/a8f014ec6a21

Kees,

This patch has not been applied to kernel 6.5-rc5. Is there some problem?

Larry