From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora•org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel•org>
Cc: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx•com>,
Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail•com>,
Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom•com>,
Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom•com>,
Chi-hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@infineon•com>,
Wright Feng <wright.feng@infineon•com>,
Chung-hsien Hsu <chung-hsien.hsu@infineon•com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor•com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium•org>,
Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro•org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: Replace zero-length array with flexible array member
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:17:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o88sy2gk.fsf@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210912191536.GB146608@embeddedor> (Gustavo A. R. Silva's message of "Sun, 12 Sep 2021 14:15:36 -0500")
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel•org> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 11:22:17AM +0200, Len Baker 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].
>>
>> Also, make use of the struct_size() helper in devm_kzalloc().
>>
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
>> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx•com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel•org>
>
> I'll take this in my -next tree. :)
Why? It should go to wireless-drivers-next.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-16 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-04 9:22 [PATCH] brcmfmac: Replace zero-length array with flexible array member Len Baker
2021-09-12 19:15 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-09-16 15:17 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2021-09-21 5:55 ` Kalle Valo
2021-09-21 17:37 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-09-24 11:20 ` Kalle Valo
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