linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: smartpqi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

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Message-ID: <yq1pmucojub.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Aug 2021 23:01:54 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Don Brace <don.brace@...rochip.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        storagedev@...rochip.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: smartpqi: Replace one-element array with
 flexible-array member


Gustavo,

> 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].

Applied to 5.15/scsi-staging, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering