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authorKees Cook <[email protected]>2023-06-01 09:07:46 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>2023-06-09 17:44:24 -0700
commitf26799ffd6c7871aa0a1b8eeff2bd28258368cdb (patch)
tree6e93c42c4d12578cf24feb84c2071a212d741c25
parent16c6006af4d4e70ecef93977a5314409d931020b (diff)
checkpatch: check for 0-length and 1-element arrays
Fake flexible arrays have been deprecated since last millennium. Proper C99 flexible arrays must be used throughout the kernel so CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE and CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS can provide proper array bounds checking. [[email protected]: various suggestions] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]> Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <[email protected]> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index b30114d637c4..158479496388 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -7418,6 +7418,16 @@ sub process {
}
}
+# check for array definition/declarations that should use flexible arrays instead
+ if ($sline =~ /^[\+ ]\s*\}(?:\s*__packed)?\s*;\s*$/ &&
+ $prevline =~ /^\+\s*(?:\}(?:\s*__packed\s*)?|$Type)\s*$Ident\s*\[\s*(0|1)\s*\]\s*;\s*$/) {
+ if (ERROR("FLEXIBLE_ARRAY",
+ "Use C99 flexible arrays - see https://docs.kernel.org/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays\n" . $hereprev) &&
+ $1 == '0' && $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr - 1] =~ s/\[\s*0\s*\]/[]/;
+ }
+ }
+
# nested likely/unlikely calls
if ($line =~ /\b(?:(?:un)?likely)\s*\(\s*!?\s*(IS_ERR(?:_OR_NULL|_VALUE)?|WARN)/) {
WARN("LIKELY_MISUSE",