Re: [PATCH -next] sparc: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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On 2024-12-18 08:44, Zhang Kunbo wrote:
> The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
> extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
> variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1],
> introduced in C99:
> 
> struct foo {
> 	int stuff;
> 	struct boo array[];
> };
> 
> By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
> in case the flexible array does not occur last, which is beneficial
> to cultivate a high-quality code.[2]
> 
> This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
> [2] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Kunbo <zhangkunbo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/sparc/kernel/pci.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/pci.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/pci.c
> index 50a0927a84a6..ddac216a2aff 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/pci.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/pci.c
> @@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ static void pci_bus_slot_names(struct device_node *node, struct pci_bus *bus)
>  {
>  	const struct pci_slot_names {
>  		u32	slot_mask;
> -		char	names[0];
> +		char	names[];
>  	} *prop;
>  	const char *sp;
>  	int len, i;

Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Picking this up to my for-next.

Thanks,
Andreas




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