From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] tw89: core.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:42:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220216184213.13328667@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220216195047.GA904198@embeddedor>
On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:50:47 -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@kernel.org>
The subject is off.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-17 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-16 19:50 [PATCH][next] tw89: core.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-02-16 20:35 ` Kees Cook
2022-02-17 0:25 ` Pkshih
2022-02-17 2:42 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-02-17 10:06 ` Kalle Valo
2022-02-21 9:01 ` [next] rtw89: " Kalle Valo
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