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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:47:55 +0300 From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org> To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] iwlwifi: fw: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org> writes: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:35:14PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 01:50:15PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: >> > There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare >> > having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. >> > Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these >> > cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should >> > no longer be used[2]. >> > >> > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member >> > [2] >> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays >> > >> > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78 >> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org> >> >> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> > > Hi all, > > Friendly ping: can someone take this, please? > > ...I can take this in my -next tree in the meantime. Like we have discussed before, please don't take any wireless patches to your tree. The conflicts just cause more work of us. I assigned this patch to me on patchwork and I'm planning to take it to wireless-next once it opens. Luca, ack? -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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