linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] brcmfmac: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members

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Message-ID: <164543399279.995.3471133482847126442.kvalo@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:59:54 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arend van Spriel <aspriel@...il.com>,
        Franky Lin <franky.lin@...adcom.com>,
        Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@...adcom.com>,
        Chi-hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@...ineon.com>,
        Wright Feng <wright.feng@...ineon.com>,
        Chung-hsien Hsu <chung-hsien.hsu@...ineon.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com,
        SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@...ineon.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] brcmfmac: Replace zero-length arrays with
 flexible-array members

"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org> wrote:

> 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>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

d8b1f4193e09 brcmfmac: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20220216194935.GA904103@embeddedor/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches