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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2021-08-09 11:21:23 -0700
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2021-10-18 12:28:52 -0700
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stddef: Introduce DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper
There are many places where kernel code wants to have several different typed trailing flexible arrays. This would normally be done with multiple flexible arrays in a union, but since GCC and Clang don't (on the surface) allow this, there have been many open-coded workarounds, usually involving neighboring 0-element arrays at the end of a structure. For example, instead of something like this: struct thing { ... union { struct type1 foo[]; struct type2 bar[]; }; }; code works around the compiler with: struct thing { ... struct type1 foo[0]; struct type2 bar[]; }; Another case is when a flexible array is wanted as the single member within a struct (which itself is usually in a union). For example, this would be worked around as: union many { ... struct { struct type3 baz[0]; }; }; These kinds of work-arounds cause problems with size checks against such zero-element arrays (for example when building with -Warray-bounds and -Wzero-length-bounds, and with the coming FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements), so they must all be converted to "real" flexible arrays, avoiding warnings like this: fs/hpfs/anode.c: In function 'hpfs_add_sector_to_btree': fs/hpfs/anode.c:209:27: warning: array subscript 0 is outside the bounds of an interior zero-length array 'struct bplus_internal_node[0]' [-Wzero-length-bounds] 209 | anode->btree.u.internal[0].down = cpu_to_le32(a); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ In file included from fs/hpfs/hpfs_fn.h:26, from fs/hpfs/anode.c:10: fs/hpfs/hpfs.h:412:32: note: while referencing 'internal' 412 | struct bplus_internal_node internal[0]; /* (internal) 2-word entries giving | ^~~~~~~~ drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.c: In function 'es58x_fd_tx_can_msg': drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.c:360:35: warning: array subscript 65535 is outside the bounds of an interior zero-length array 'u8[0]' {aka 'unsigned char[]'} [-Wzero-length-bounds] 360 | tx_can_msg = (typeof(tx_can_msg))&es58x_fd_urb_cmd->raw_msg[msg_len]; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_core.h:22, from drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.c:17: drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.h:231:6: note: while referencing 'raw_msg' 231 | u8 raw_msg[0]; | ^~~~~~~ However, it _is_ entirely possible to have one or more flexible arrays in a struct or union: it just has to be in another struct. And since it cannot be alone in a struct, such a struct must have at least 1 other named member -- but that member can be zero sized. Wrap all this nonsense into the new DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() in support of having flexible arrays in unions (or alone in a struct). As with struct_group(), since this is needed in UAPI headers as well, implement the core there, with a non-UAPI wrapper. Additionally update kernel-doc to understand its existence. https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/137 Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/kernel-doc2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index 38aa799a776c..5d54b57ff90c 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1263,6 +1263,8 @@ sub dump_struct($$) {
$members =~ s/DECLARE_KFIFO\s*\($args,\s*$args,\s*$args\)/$2 \*$1/gos;
# replace DECLARE_KFIFO_PTR
$members =~ s/DECLARE_KFIFO_PTR\s*\($args,\s*$args\)/$2 \*$1/gos;
+ # replace DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY
+ $members =~ s/(?:__)?DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY\s*\($args,\s*$args\)/$1 $2\[\]/gos;
my $declaration = $members;
# Split nested struct/union elements as newer ones