linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH][next] treewide: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members

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Date:   Wed, 16 Feb 2022 20:05:47 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] treewide: Replace zero-length arrays with
 flexible-array members

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 8:24 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavoars@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 09:19:29PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 01:21:10PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 10:17:40AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 11:47:43AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > > >
> > > > These all look trivially correct to me. Only two didn't have the end of
> > > > the struct visible in the patch, and checking those showed them to be
> > > > trailing members as well, so:
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > >
> > > I'll add this to my -next tree.
> >
> > I would like to ask you to send mlx5 patch separately to netdev. We are working
> > to delete that file completely and prefer to avoid from unnecessary merge conflicts.
>
> Oh OK. Sure thing; I will do so.

Can you also send the ACPI patch separately, please?

We would like to route it through the upstream ACPICA code base.