One more thing, for context: On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 11:11 AM Brian Norris <briannor...@chromium.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 1:39 AM Jiapeng Zhong > <abaci-bug...@linux.alibaba.com> wrote: > > > > Fix the follow coccicheck warnings: > > > > ./drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h: WARNING use flexible-array > > member instead(https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/ > > deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays) > > > > Reported-by: Abaci Robot <ab...@linux.alibaba.com> > > Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Zhong <abaci-bug...@linux.alibaba.com> > > Past experience unfortunately requires me to ask: did you test your > changes? I understand that's a mostly legit warning, and a good > deprecation notice, but that doesn't mean this is the right fix. One > probably should instead audit the usage sites to see if they *are* > already making proper sizeof (or other) comparisons, and if not, fix > those first. And if any sites *are* doing correct sizeof computations > using the existing struct layouts, then you are probably breaking > them. > > Or if you have audited the usage of these structs, it's nice to make a > small explanation of why this is correct, so I (and other readers) > don't have to ask these questions :)
FYI, there are others who I believe are making similar blind changes to this code: [PATCH 1/1] mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_config_scan https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CA+ASDXPkLg2GGFJTt25YO7wae==yahftf8jxu520pl_vzat...@mail.gmail.com/ For that particular case (the 'ssid' field in mwifiex_ie_types_wildcard_ssid_params), the previous patch-er was incorrect, and I believe your change is a better one. But neither of you provided useful analysis. Brian
