[PATCH][next] usbnet: gl620a: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Mon Feb 21 2022 - 12:26:29 EST


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/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c b/drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c
index 13a9a83b8538..46af78caf457 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@

struct gl_packet {
__le32 packet_length;
- char packet_data [1];
+ char packet_data[];
};

struct gl_header {
--
2.27.0