Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Replace fake flexible arrays with flexible array members

From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	acpica-devel@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Replace fake flexible arrays with flexible array members
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:52:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0iV3vjkVMKOpmTEzHxRHPTeR23daSpDQtbfmgSE4K6AXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202301271032.43B50EB7@keescook>

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 7:33 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 07:08:39PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 8:16 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 07:10:52PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 7:38 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 10:15:51AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > > > > Functionally identical to ACPICA upstream pull request 813:
> > > > > > https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/813
> > > > >
> > > > > Any update on this? Upstream is currently unbuildable since October.
> > > > >
> > > > > > One-element arrays (and multi-element arrays being treated as
> > > > > > dynamically sized) are deprecated[1] and are being replaced with
> > > > > > flexible array members in support of the ongoing efforts to tighten the
> > > > > > FORTIFY_SOURCE routines on memcpy(), correctly instrument array indexing
> > > > > > with UBSAN_BOUNDS, and to globally enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in struct
> > > > > > acpi_resource_extended_irq. Replace 4-byte fixed-size array with 4-byte
> > > > > > padding in a union with a flexible-array member in struct
> > > > > > acpi_pci_routing_table.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This results in no differences in binary output.
> > > > >
> > > > > In the meantime, can you take this patch for Linux, and we can wait for
> > > > > ACPICA to catch up?
> > > >
> > > > Applied now (as 6.3 material), sorry for the delay.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > Unfortunately, this breaks compilation for the ACPI tools in tools/power/acpi/.
>
> What's the make target to test this?

Just cd to tools/power/acpi in the kernel tree and run make.

> > Apparently, the problem is that DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() is not defined
> > when the tools are built, because kernel headers are not used then.
>
> This should exist in the stddef.h tools headers, but perhaps it isn't
> included already?

No, it isn't AFAICS.

> > I guess the changes from your upstream PR need to be backported
> > literally for this to work, so I'll drop this one for the time being.
> > Or please let me know if you have a better idea.
>
> I can send a new version if I can reproduce the build failure you see...

Sure, thanks!