Re: [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Thu Feb 17 2022 - 11:37:22 EST


On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 02:27:55PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> 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].
>
> 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().
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/180
> Suggested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
--
Gustavo

> ---
> include/sound/sof/topology.h | 2 +-
> sound/soc/sof/topology.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/sound/sof/topology.h b/include/sound/sof/topology.h
> index d12736e14b69..adee6afd1490 100644
> --- a/include/sound/sof/topology.h
> +++ b/include/sound/sof/topology.h
> @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ struct sof_ipc_comp_process {
> /* reserved for future use */
> uint32_t reserved[7];
>
> - uint8_t data[0];
> + uint8_t data[];
> } __packed;
>
> /* frees components, buffers and pipelines
> diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/topology.c b/sound/soc/sof/topology.c
> index e72dcae5e7ee..1d119d1dd69d 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/sof/topology.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/sof/topology.c
> @@ -2164,7 +2164,7 @@ static int sof_process_load(struct snd_soc_component *scomp, int index,
> */
> if (ipc_data_size) {
> for (i = 0; i < widget->num_kcontrols; i++) {
> - memcpy(&process->data + offset,
> + memcpy(&process->data[offset],
> wdata[i].pdata->data,
> wdata[i].pdata->size);
> offset += wdata[i].pdata->size;
>
> base-commit: f71077a4d84bbe8c7b91b7db7c4ef815755ac5e3
> --
> 2.27.0
>