Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:28:00 -0300 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] flexible-array transformations in UAPI for 6.0-rc1 |
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On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 03:31:28PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > The following changes since commit b13baccc3850ca8b8cccbf8ed9912dbaa0fdf7f3: > > Linux 5.19-rc2 (2022-06-12 16:11:37 -0700) > > are available in the Git repository at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux.git tags/flexible-array-transformations-UAPI-6.0-rc1 > > for you to fetch changes up to 94dfc73e7cf4a31da66b8843f0b9283ddd6b8381: > > treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members (2022-06-28 21:26:05 +0200) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > flexible-array transformations in UAPI for 6.0-rc1 > > Hi Linus, > > Please, pull the following treewide patch that replaces zero-length arrays > with flexible-array members in UAPI. This patch has been baking in > linux-next for 5 weeks now. > > -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 is coming and we need to land these changes > to prevent issues like these in the short future: > > ../fs/minix/dir.c:337:3: warning: 'strcpy' will always overflow; destination buffer has size 0, > but the source string has length 2 (including NUL byte) [-Wfortify-source] > strcpy(de3->name, "."); > ^ > > Since these are all [0] to [] changes, the risk to UAPI is nearly zero. If > this breaks anything, we can use a union with a new member name.
This has trobuled the RDMA userspace by creating new compiler warnings..
We discussed this and I thought you agreed not to send these changes?
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20220628135623.GA25163@embeddedor/
Jason
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