[PATCH] shell32: use flexible arrays to avoid fortify failures

[Alexandre Julliard]

Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> writes:

> Newer versions of gcc/glibc with fortify checks enabled will complain
> about the handling of the network's szNames field.  Currently it is
> always defined with a length of one which means writing more then a
> single byte will trigger:
> 	In function 'strcpy', inlined from '_ILCreateEntireNetwork' at
> 	dlls/shell32/pidl.c:1762:15:
> 	warning: call to __builtin___strcpy_chk will always overflow destination buffer
> and then at runtime, we hit an abort().
>
> Since this field is really serving as the header to an arbitrary buffer,
> using a flexible array instead should solve the issue.

What you want is ANYSIZE_ARRAY, which already exists.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org