netdev - Warnings build iproute2 with gcc-12 in xfrm

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Date:   Fri, 20 May 2022 12:19:21 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Warnings build iproute2 with gcc-12 in xfrm

Iproute2 now gets warning in xfrm code with Gcc-12

In function ‘xfrm_algo_parse’,
    inlined from ‘xfrm_state_modify.constprop’ at xfrm_state.c:573:5:
xfrm_state.c:162:32: warning: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
  162 |                         buf[j] = val;
      |                         ~~~~~~~^~~~~


Fixing it properly would be hard since buf points to element in alg union which can be from xfrm.h.
I.e:

struct xfrm_algo {
	char		alg_name[64];
	unsigned int	alg_key_len;    /* in bits */
	char		alg_key[0];
};

Looks like use of legacy zero sized arrays in uapi is the underlying root cause.

Any good suggestions on best fix here?