Kees Cook <[email protected]> writes:
> As part of the work to perform bounds checking on all memcpy() uses,
> replace the open-coded a deserialization of bytes out of memory into a
> trailing flexible array by using a flex_array.h helper to perform the
> allocation, bounds checking, and copying.
>
> Cc: Loic Poulain <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
[...]
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.h
> @@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ struct wcn36xx_fw_msg_status_rsp {
>
> struct wcn36xx_hal_ind_msg {
> struct list_head list;
> - size_t msg_len;
> - u8 msg[];
> + DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY_ELEMENTS_COUNT(size_t, msg_len);
> + DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY_ELEMENTS(u8, msg);
This affects readability quite a lot and tbh I don't like it. Isn't
there any simpler way to solve this?
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