linux-kernel - remaining flexible-array conversions

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Message-ID: <6342c465-e34b-3e18-cc31-1d989926aebd@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:26:02 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: remaining flexible-array conversions

Hi Linus,

Just wanted to ask you if you would agree on pulling the remaining
flexible-array conversions all at once, after they bake for a couple
of weeks in linux-next[1]

This is not a disruptive change and there are no code generation
differences. So, I think it would make better use of everyone's time
if you pull this treewide patch[2] from my tree (after sending you a
proper pull-request, of course) sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Notice that the treewide patch I mention here has been successfully
built (on top of v5.7-rc1) for multiple architectures (arm, arm64,
sparc, powerpc, ia64, s390, i386, nios2, c6x, xtensa, openrisc, mips,
parisc, x86_64, riscv, sh, sparc64) and 82 different configurations
with the help of the 0-day CI guys[3].

What do you think?

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=d496496793ff69c4a6b1262a0001eb5cd0a56544
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next/kspp&id=d783301058f3d3605f9ad34f0192692ef572d663
[3] https://github.com/GustavoARSilva/linux-hardening/blob/master/cii/kernel-ci/kspp-fam0-20200420.md

Thanks
--
Gustavo