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* [PATCH][next] iwlwifi: mei: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
@ 2022-02-16 19:50 Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2022-02-16 20:35 ` Kees Cook
  2022-04-06  7:19 ` Kalle Valo
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2022-02-16 19:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Luca Coelho, Kalle Valo, David S. Miller, Jakub Kicinski
  Cc: linux-wireless, netdev, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva,
	linux-hardening

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>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/sap.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/sap.h b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/sap.h
index 11e3009121cc..be1456dea484 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/sap.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/sap.h
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ struct iwl_sap_hdr {
 	__le16 type;
 	__le16 len;
 	__le32 seq_num;
-	u8 payload[0];
+	u8 payload[];
 };
 
 /**
-- 
2.27.0


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