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Message-ID: <20200715215755.GA21716@embeddedor>
Date:   Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:57:55 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
To:     Maya Erez <merez@...eaurora.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, wil6210@....qualcomm.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH][next] wil6210: Avoid the use of one-element array

One-element arrays are being deprecated[1]. Replace the one-element
array with a simple value type 'u8 reserved'[2], once this is just
a placeholder for alignment.

[1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/86

Tested-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Link: https://github.com/GustavoARSilva/linux-hardening/blob/master/cii/0-day/wil6210-20200715.md
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.h
index 9affa4525609..beb53cac329b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.h
@@ -3086,7 +3086,7 @@ struct wmi_scheduling_scheme_event {
 	/* wmi_sched_scheme_failure_type */
 	u8 failure_type;
 	/* alignment to 32b */
-	u8 reserved[1];
+	u8 reserved;
 } __packed;
 
 /* WMI_RS_CFG_CMDID - deprecated */
-- 
2.27.0