"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> 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]. > > This helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable -Warray-bounds > and get us closer to being able to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE routines > on memcpy(). > > This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed, > manually. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member > [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays > > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79 > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109 > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks. 090f2c5d3d07 mwifiex: usb: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20210809211134.GA22488@embeddedor/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
