gcc-10 warns about accesses to zero-length arrays: kernel/bpf/core.c: In function 'bpf_patch_insn_single': cc1: warning: writing 8 bytes into a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=] In file included from kernel/bpf/core.c:21: include/linux/filter.h:550:20: note: at offset 0 to object 'insnsi' with size 0 declared here 550 | struct bpf_insn insnsi[0]; | ^~~~~~ In this case, we really want to have two flexible-array members, but that is not possible. Removing the union to make insnsi a flexible-array member while leaving insns as a zero-length array fixes the warning, as nothing writes to the other one in that way. This trick only works on linux-3.18 or higher, as older versions had additional members in the union. Fixes: 60a3b2253c41 ("net: bpf: make eBPF interpreter images read-only") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/filter.h | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/filter.h b/include/linux/filter.h index af37318bb1c5..73d06a39e2d6 100644 --- a/include/linux/filter.h +++ b/include/linux/filter.h @@ -545,10 +545,8 @@ struct bpf_prog { unsigned int (*bpf_func)(const void *ctx, const struct bpf_insn *insn); /* Instructions for interpreter */ - union { - struct sock_filter insns[0]; - struct bpf_insn insnsi[0]; - }; + struct sock_filter insns[0]; + struct bpf_insn insnsi[]; }; struct sk_filter { -- 2.26.0