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Message-ID: <170f7087-1f70-941e-9e6c-749eaf3978fe@broadcom.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 11:26:39 +0100
From: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
Franky Lin <franky.lin@...adcom.com>,
Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@...adcom.com>,
Chi-Hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@...ress.com>,
Wright Feng <wright.feng@...ress.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com,
brcm80211-dev-list@...ress.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] brcmfmac: Replace zero-length array with
flexible-array member
On 2/25/2020 3:08 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
> extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
> variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
> introduced in C99:
[...]
> "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
> may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
> zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]
>
> This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
> [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.h | 2 +-
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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