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[next] tw89: core.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

Message ID 20220216195047.GA904198@embeddedor
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Series [next] tw89: core.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member | expand

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Gustavo A. R. Silva Feb. 16, 2022, 7:50 p.m. UTC
There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
no longer be used[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
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 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Kalle Valo Feb. 21, 2022, 9:01 a.m. UTC | #1
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org> wrote:

> There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
> having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
> Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
> cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
> no longer be used[2].
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

2e2f63a19b0a rtw89: core.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.h b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.h
index 7c84556ec4ad..b15b529e19ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.h
@@ -2847,7 +2847,7 @@  struct rtw89_dev {
 	int napi_budget_countdown;
 
 	/* HCI related data, keep last */
-	u8 priv[0] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
+	u8 priv[] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
 };
 
 static inline int rtw89_hci_tx_write(struct rtw89_dev *rtwdev,