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

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Message-ID: <ZyoAGsCAdWrGMQoj@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 03:23:06 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] freevxfs: Replace one-element array with flexible array
 member

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?