linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

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Message-ID: <20200508194325.GD23375@embeddedor>
Date:   Fri, 8 May 2020 14:43:25 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 03:15:44PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 02:05:44PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
> > extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
> > variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
> > introduced in C99:
> > 
> > struct foo {
> >         int stuff;
> >         struct boo array[];
> > };
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
> 
> Applied to pci/misc for v5.8, thanks!
> 
> I assume this takes care of everything in drivers/pci/, right?  I'd
> like to do them all at once, so if there are others, send another
> patch and I'll squash them.  I took a quick look but didn't see any.
> 

Yep. I can confirm that these are the last zero-length arrays in
drivers/pci/ :)

Thanks
--
Gustavo