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Message-ID: <ZAZ57I6WdQEwWh7v@work>
Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2023 17:40:28 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
To:     Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>,
        Rahul Verma <rahulv@...vell.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] netxen_nic: Replace fake flex-array with
 flexible-array member

Zero-length arrays as fake flexible arrays are deprecated and we are
moving towards adopting C99 flexible-array members instead.

Transform zero-length array into flexible-array member in struct
nx_cardrsp_rx_ctx_t.

Address the following warnings found with GCC-13 and
-fstrict-flex-arrays=3 enabled:
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_ctx.c:361:26: warning: array subscript <unknown> is outside array bounds of ‘char[0]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_ctx.c:372:25: warning: array subscript <unknown> is outside array bounds of ‘char[0]’ [-Warray-bounds=]

This helps with the ongoing efforts to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE
routines on memcpy() and help us make progress towards globally
enabling -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 [1].

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/265
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [1]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic.h
index f13fa7396aef..3d36d23df0c6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic.h
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ typedef struct {
 	   The following is packed:
 	   - N cardrsp_rds_rings
 	   - N cardrs_sds_rings */
-	char data[0];
+	char data[];
 } nx_cardrsp_rx_ctx_t;
 
 #define SIZEOF_HOSTRQ_RX(HOSTRQ_RX, rds_rings, sds_rings)	\
-- 
2.34.1