This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
stddef: Introduce DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
stddef-introduce-declare_flex_array-helper.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From stable+bounces-15920-greg=kroah.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fri Jan 26 11:32:58 2024
From: kovalev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:31:42 +0300
Subject: stddef: Introduce DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper
To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, samba-technical@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx, sfrench@xxxxxxxxx, corbet@xxxxxxx, natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx, ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx, kovalev@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20240126193143.245122-2-kovalev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3080ea5553cc909b000d1f1d964a9041962f2c5b upstream.
There are many places where kernel code wants to have several different
typed trailing flexible arrays. This would normally be done with multiple
flexible arrays in a union, but since GCC and Clang don't (on the surface)
allow this, there have been many open-coded workarounds, usually involving
neighboring 0-element arrays at the end of a structure. For example,
instead of something like this:
struct thing {
...
union {
struct type1 foo[];
struct type2 bar[];
};
};
code works around the compiler with:
struct thing {
...
struct type1 foo[0];
struct type2 bar[];
};
Another case is when a flexible array is wanted as the single member
within a struct (which itself is usually in a union). For example, this
would be worked around as:
union many {
...
struct {
struct type3 baz[0];
};
};
These kinds of work-arounds cause problems with size checks against such
zero-element arrays (for example when building with -Warray-bounds and
-Wzero-length-bounds, and with the coming FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements),
so they must all be converted to "real" flexible arrays, avoiding warnings
like this:
fs/hpfs/anode.c: In function 'hpfs_add_sector_to_btree':
fs/hpfs/anode.c:209:27: warning: array subscript 0 is outside the bounds of an interior zero-length array 'struct bplus_internal_node[0]' [-Wzero-length-bounds]
209 | anode->btree.u.internal[0].down = cpu_to_le32(a);
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
In file included from fs/hpfs/hpfs_fn.h:26,
from fs/hpfs/anode.c:10:
fs/hpfs/hpfs.h:412:32: note: while referencing 'internal'
412 | struct bplus_internal_node internal[0]; /* (internal) 2-word entries giving
| ^~~~~~~~
drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.c: In function 'es58x_fd_tx_can_msg':
drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.c:360:35: warning: array subscript 65535 is outside the bounds of an interior zero-length array 'u8[0]' {aka 'unsigned char[]'} [-Wzero-length-bounds]
360 | tx_can_msg = (typeof(tx_can_msg))&es58x_fd_urb_cmd->raw_msg[msg_len];
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_core.h:22,
from drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.c:17:
drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_fd.h:231:6: note: while referencing 'raw_msg'
231 | u8 raw_msg[0];
| ^~~~~~~
However, it _is_ entirely possible to have one or more flexible arrays
in a struct or union: it just has to be in another struct. And since it
cannot be alone in a struct, such a struct must have at least 1 other
named member -- but that member can be zero sized. Wrap all this nonsense
into the new DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() in support of having flexible arrays
in unions (or alone in a struct).
As with struct_group(), since this is needed in UAPI headers as well,
implement the core there, with a non-UAPI wrapper.
Additionally update kernel-doc to understand its existence.
https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/137
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kovalev <kovalev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/stddef.h | 13 +++++++++++++
include/uapi/linux/stddef.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
scripts/kernel-doc | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/stddef.h
+++ b/include/linux/stddef.h
@@ -84,4 +84,17 @@ enum {
#define struct_group_tagged(TAG, NAME, MEMBERS...) \
__struct_group(TAG, NAME, /* no attrs */, MEMBERS)
+/**
+ * DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() - Declare a flexible array usable in a union
+ *
+ * @TYPE: The type of each flexible array element
+ * @NAME: The name of the flexible array member
+ *
+ * In order to have a flexible array member in a union or alone in a
+ * struct, it needs to be wrapped in an anonymous struct with at least 1
+ * named member, but that member can be empty.
+ */
+#define DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(TYPE, NAME) \
+ __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(TYPE, NAME)
+
#endif
--- a/include/uapi/linux/stddef.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/stddef.h
@@ -28,4 +28,20 @@
struct { MEMBERS } ATTRS; \
struct TAG { MEMBERS } ATTRS NAME; \
}
+
+/**
+ * __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() - Declare a flexible array usable in a union
+ *
+ * @TYPE: The type of each flexible array element
+ * @NAME: The name of the flexible array member
+ *
+ * In order to have a flexible array member in a union or alone in a
+ * struct, it needs to be wrapped in an anonymous struct with at least 1
+ * named member, but that member can be empty.
+ */
+#define __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(TYPE, NAME) \
+ struct { \
+ struct { } __empty_ ## NAME; \
+ TYPE NAME[]; \
+ }
#endif
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1232,7 +1232,8 @@ sub dump_struct($$) {
$members =~ s/DECLARE_KFIFO\s*\(([^,)]+),\s*([^,)]+),\s*([^,)]+)\)/$2 \*$1/gos;
# replace DECLARE_KFIFO_PTR
$members =~ s/DECLARE_KFIFO_PTR\s*\(([^,)]+),\s*([^,)]+)\)/$2 \*$1/gos;
-
+ # replace DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY
+ $members =~ s/(?:__)?DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY\s*\($args,\s*$args\)/$1 $2\[\]/gos;
my $declaration = $members;
# Split nested struct/union elements as newer ones
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kroah.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.10/stddef-introduce-declare_flex_array-helper.patch
queue-5.10/smb3-replace-smb2pdu-1-element-arrays-with-flex-arrays.patch
