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Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:39:36 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
To:     Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] wifi: carl9170: 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.

Address the following warnings found with GCC-13 and
-fstrict-flex-arrays=3 enabled:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:702:61: warning: array subscript i is outside array bounds of ‘const struct _carl9170_tx_status[0]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:701:65: warning: array subscript i is outside array bounds of ‘const struct _carl9170_tx_status[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/267
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/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h
index ff4b3b50250c..e5bcc364f088 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fwcmd.h
@@ -320,9 +320,9 @@ struct carl9170_rsp {
 		struct carl9170_u32_list	rreg_res;
 		struct carl9170_u32_list	echo;
 #ifdef __CARL9170FW__
-		struct carl9170_tx_status	tx_status[0];
+		DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(struct carl9170_tx_status, tx_status);
 #endif /* __CARL9170FW__ */
-		struct _carl9170_tx_status	_tx_status[0];
+		DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(struct _carl9170_tx_status, _tx_status);
 		struct carl9170_gpio		gpio;
 		struct carl9170_tsf_rsp		tsf;
 		struct carl9170_psm		psm;
-- 
2.34.1