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

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Message-Id: <162977310550.31461.13461113082507282975.b4-ty@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:02:58 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Don Brace <don.brace@...rochip.com>
Cc:     "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        storagedev@...rochip.com, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: smartpqi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:07:41 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva 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].
> 
> Refactor the code a bit according to the use of a flexible-array member
> in struct pqi_event_config instead of a one-element array, and use the
> struct_size() helper.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.15/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: smartpqi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/5f492a7aa13b

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering