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Date:   Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:50:30 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
To:     Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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] iwlwifi: mei: Replace zero-length array with
 flexible-array member

There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
no longer be used[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/sap.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/sap.h b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/sap.h
index 11e3009121cc..be1456dea484 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/sap.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/sap.h
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ struct iwl_sap_hdr {
 	__le16 type;
 	__le16 len;
 	__le32 seq_num;
-	u8 payload[0];
+	u8 payload[];
 };
 
 /**
-- 
2.27.0