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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:49:16 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc:     Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>, Paulo Alcantara <pc@cjr.nz>,
        Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>,
        Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>,
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        samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] cifs: Replace zero-length arrays with
 flexible-array members
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 07:39:00PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Zero-length arrays are deprecated[1] and we are moving towards
> adopting C99 flexible-array members instead. So, replace zero-length
> arrays in a couple of structures with flex-array members.
> 
> This helps with the ongoing efforts to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE
> routines on memcpy() and help us make progress towards globally
> enabling -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 [2].
> 
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays [1]
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [2]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook