+ ipc-msg-replace-one-element-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: ipc/msg: replace one-element array with flexible array member
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     ipc-msg-replace-one-element-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ipc-msg-replace-one-element-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Subject: ipc/msg: replace one-element array with flexible array member
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:58:22 +0200

Replace the deprecated one-element array with a modern flexible array
member in the struct compat_msgbuf.

There are no binary differences after this conversion.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240930195824.153648-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: "Sun, Jiebin" <jiebin.sun@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 ipc/msg.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/ipc/msg.c~ipc-msg-replace-one-element-array-with-flexible-array-member
+++ a/ipc/msg.c
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(msgsnd, int, msqid, stru
 
 struct compat_msgbuf {
 	compat_long_t mtype;
-	char mtext[1];
+	char mtext[];
 };
 
 long compat_ksys_msgsnd(int msqid, compat_uptr_t msgp,
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from thorsten.blum@linux.dev are

ipc-msg-replace-one-element-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch