Re: [PATCH][next] drm/vmwgfx: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

[Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>]

On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 19:27 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> One-element arrays are deprecated, and we are replacing them with flexible
> array members instead. So, replace one-element array with flexible-array
> member in struct vmw_view.
> 
> This helps with the ongoing efforts to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE
> routines on memcpy() and help us make progress towards globally
> enabling -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 [1].
> 
> This results in no differences in binary output.
> 
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>  [1]
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_so.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_so.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_so.c
> index 4ea32b01efc0..0f696ccaddc6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_so.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_so.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ struct vmw_view {
>         unsigned view_id;              /* Immutable */
>         u32 cmd_size;                  /* Immutable */
>         bool committed;                /* Protected by binding_mutex */
> -       u32 cmd[1];                    /* Immutable */
> +       u32 cmd[];                     /* Immutable */
>  };
>  
>  static int vmw_view_create(struct vmw_resource *res);

Reviewed-by: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>

Will this go in through linux-next directly or do you want me to push it through
drm-misc-next?

z