netdev - Re: [PATCH, take2] netfilter : struct xt_table

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Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:02:43 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	horms@...ge.net.au (Simon Horman)
Cc:	dada1@...mosbay.com, kaber@...sh.net, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...ts.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, take2] netfilter : struct xt_table_info diet

Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> wrote:
>
> @@ -269,9 +269,12 @@ struct xt_table_info
>        unsigned int underflow[NF_INET_NUMHOOKS];
> 
>        /* ipt_entry tables: one per CPU */
> -       char *entries[NR_CPUS];
> +       /* Note : this field MUST be the last one, see XT_TABLE_INFO_SZ */
> +       char *entries[1];

Just do

	char *entries[];

Not only is it ISO C99, but the compiler will die if it's not at
the end.

Actually I haven't read the rest of the patch, so scratch this
comment if you really need to have one entry there for some reason :)

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