From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Cc: 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>, Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@infineon.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: Replace zero-length array with flexible array member
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:20:59 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210924112059.72C03C4338F@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210904092217.2848-1-len.baker@gmx.com>
Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com> 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>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
3fd445a4d49f brcmfmac: Replace zero-length array with flexible array member
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20210904092217.2848-1-len.baker@gmx.com/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-24 11:21 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
2021-09-21 5:55 ` Kalle Valo
2021-09-21 17:37 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-09-24 11:20 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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