linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] freevxfs: Replace one-element array with flexible array member

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Message-Id: <20241105105339.8d53c034b0d3fdd66139cdec@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 10:53:39 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>,
 linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christian
 Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] freevxfs: Replace one-element array with flexible array
 member

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 03:23:06 -0800 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 01:17:09PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> > Replace the deprecated one-element array with a modern flexible array
> > member in the struct vxfs_dirblk.
> > 
> > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
> > Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
> 
> Might be worth adding that nothing does a sizeof of the type or
> variables of the type, so just hcanging it is fine.
> 
> Otherwise looks good:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> Andrew, can you pick this up through -mm as there is no freevxfs tree?

I assume Christian can scoop this up?