[PATCH][next] readdir: Replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Jun 20 2023 - 13:29:52 EST


One-element arrays are deprecated, and we are replacing them with flexible
array members instead. So, replace one-element arrays with flexible-array
members in multiple structures.

Address the following -Wstringop-overflow warnings seen when built
m68k architecture with m5307c3_defconfig configuration:
In function '__put_user_fn',
inlined from 'fillonedir' at fs/readdir.c:170:2:
include/asm-generic/uaccess.h:49:35: warning: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
49 | *(u8 __force *)to = *(u8 *)from;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~
fs/readdir.c: In function 'fillonedir':
fs/readdir.c:134:25: note: at offset 1 into destination object 'd_name' of size 1
134 | char d_name[1];
| ^~~~~~
In function '__put_user_fn',
inlined from 'filldir' at fs/readdir.c:257:2:
include/asm-generic/uaccess.h:49:35: warning: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
49 | *(u8 __force *)to = *(u8 *)from;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~
fs/readdir.c: In function 'filldir':
fs/readdir.c:211:25: note: at offset 1 into destination object 'd_name' of size 1
211 | char d_name[1];
| ^~~~~~

This helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable
-Wstringop-overflow.

This results in no differences in binary output.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/312
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/readdir.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/readdir.c b/fs/readdir.c
index 9c53edb60c03..b264ce60114d 100644
--- a/fs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/readdir.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ struct old_linux_dirent {
unsigned long d_ino;
unsigned long d_offset;
unsigned short d_namlen;
- char d_name[1];
+ char d_name[];
};

struct readdir_callback {
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ struct linux_dirent {
unsigned long d_ino;
unsigned long d_off;
unsigned short d_reclen;
- char d_name[1];
+ char d_name[];
};

struct getdents_callback {
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ struct compat_old_linux_dirent {
compat_ulong_t d_ino;
compat_ulong_t d_offset;
unsigned short d_namlen;
- char d_name[1];
+ char d_name[];
};

struct compat_readdir_callback {
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ struct compat_linux_dirent {
compat_ulong_t d_ino;
compat_ulong_t d_off;
unsigned short d_reclen;
- char d_name[1];
+ char d_name[];
};

struct compat_getdents_callback {
--
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