Re: [PATCH] pylibfdt: Work-around SWIG limitations with flexible arrays

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On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 04:44:41PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Commit a41509bea3e7 ("libfdt: Replace deprecated 0-length arrays with
> proper flexible arrays") fails to build pylibfdt:
> 
> ./pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c: In function ‘_wrap_fdt_node_header_name_set’:
> ./pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c:4350:18: error: cast specifies array type
>  4350 |     arg1->name = (char [])(char *)memcpy(malloc((size)*sizeof(char)), (const char *)(arg2), sizeof(char)*(size));
>       |                  ^
> ./pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c:4350:16: error: invalid use of flexible array member
>  4350 |     arg1->name = (char [])(char *)memcpy(malloc((size)*sizeof(char)), (const char *)(arg2), sizeof(char)*(size));
>       |                ^
> ./pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c:4352:16: error: invalid use of flexible array member
>  4352 |     arg1->name = 0;
>       |                ^
> ./pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c: In function ‘_wrap_fdt_property_data_set’:
> ./pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c:4613:18: error: cast specifies array type
>  4613 |     arg1->data = (char [])(char *)memcpy(malloc((size)*sizeof(char)), (const char *)(arg2), sizeof(char)*(size));
>       |                  ^
> ./pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c:4613:16: error: invalid use of flexible array member
>  4613 |     arg1->data = (char [])(char *)memcpy(malloc((size)*sizeof(char)), (const char *)(arg2), sizeof(char)*(size));
>       |                ^
> ./pylibfdt/libfdt_wrap.c:4615:16: error: invalid use of flexible array member
>  4615 |     arg1->data = 0;
>       |                ^
> 
> Turns out this is known issue with SWIG: https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/1699
> 
> Implement the work-around to ignore the flexible array member.
> 
> Fixes: a41509bea3e7 ("libfdt: Replace deprecated 0-length arrays with proper flexible arrays")
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.  I can't test what effect this has on the pylibfdt
stuff itself, because that has been broken for months for me.

> ---
>  pylibfdt/libfdt.i | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/pylibfdt/libfdt.i b/pylibfdt/libfdt.i
> index f9f7e7e66d13..987f7b9c3339 100644
> --- a/pylibfdt/libfdt.i
> +++ b/pylibfdt/libfdt.i
> @@ -1036,6 +1036,9 @@ class NodeAdder():
>  
>  %rename(fdt_property) fdt_property_func;
>  
> +%immutable fdt_property::data;
> +%immutable fdt_node_header::name;
> +
>  /*
>   * fdt32_t is a big-endian 32-bit value defined to uint32_t in libfdt_env.h
>   * so use the same type here.

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