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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ACPICA: Replace fake flexible arrays with flexible array members
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 07:10:52PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 7:38 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 10:15:51AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > Functionally identical to ACPICA upstream pull request 813:
> > > https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/813
> >
> > Any update on this? Upstream is currently unbuildable since October.
> >
> > > One-element arrays (and multi-element arrays being treated as
> > > dynamically sized) are deprecated[1] and are being replaced with
> > > flexible array members in support of the ongoing efforts to tighten the
> > > FORTIFY_SOURCE routines on memcpy(), correctly instrument array indexing
> > > with UBSAN_BOUNDS, and to globally enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3.
> > >
> > > Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in struct
> > > acpi_resource_extended_irq. Replace 4-byte fixed-size array with 4-byte
> > > padding in a union with a flexible-array member in struct
> > > acpi_pci_routing_table.
> > >
> > > This results in no differences in binary output.
> >
> > In the meantime, can you take this patch for Linux, and we can wait for
> > ACPICA to catch up?
>
> Applied now (as 6.3 material), sorry for the delay.

Thanks!

--
Kees Cook

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