[PATCH RESEND] powerpc/rtas: Replace one-element array with flexible array member
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: 2025-08-13 10:32:29
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linux-hardening, lkml
Subsystem:
linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds
Replace the deprecated one-element array with a modern flexible array member in the struct rtas_error_log and add the __counted_by_be() compiler attribute to improve access bounds-checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79 Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas-types.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas-types.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas-types.h
index 9d5b16803cbb..5d40d187b965 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas-types.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas-types.h@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ struct rtas_error_log { */ u8 byte3; /* General event or error*/ __be32 extended_log_length; /* length in bytes */ - unsigned char buffer[1]; /* Start of extended log */ - /* Variable length. */ + + /* Start of extended log, variable length */ + unsigned char buffer[] __counted_by_be(extended_log_length); }; /* RTAS general extended event log, Version 6. The extended log starts
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