Re: [PATCH][next] mwifiex: usb: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Sat Aug 21 2021 - 13:50:22 EST


"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> 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].
>
> This helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable -Warray-bounds
> and get us closer to being able to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE routines
> on memcpy().
>
> This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed,
> manually.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

090f2c5d3d07 mwifiex: usb: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

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