[PATCH 0/6][next] ath6kl: wmi: Replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Feb 22 2022 - 21:33:05 EST


This series aims to replace one-element arrays with flexible-array
members in multiple structures in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/wmi.h

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().

These issues were 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

Gustavo A. R. Silva (6):
ath6kl: wmi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
struct wmi_begin_scan_cmd
ath6kl: wmi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
struct wmi_start_scan_cmd
ath6kl: wmi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
struct wmi_channel_list_reply
ath6kl: wmi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
struct wmi_connect_event
ath6kl: wmi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
struct wmi_disconnect_event
ath6kl: wmi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in
struct wmi_aplist_event

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/wmi.c | 30 +++++++--------------------
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/wmi.h | 12 +++++------
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

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