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

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Jul 26 2023 - 17:56:21 EST



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.
>
>
> [...]

Applied to for-linus/hardening, thanks!

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

Best regards,
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Kees Cook