Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] scsi: gla2xxx: use flexible array member at the end of structures

[Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorovac69@gmail.com>]

On 10/24/24 00:25, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 10/23/24 3:17 PM, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
>> Fixes: 21038b0900d1b ("scsi: qla2xxx: Fix endianness annotations in header files")
> 
> The "Fixes:" tag is wrong. The one-element arrays were introduced long
> before I fixed the endianness annotations.
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dbg.h b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dbg.h
>> index 54f0a412226f..ca9304df484b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dbg.h
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dbg.h
>> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct qla2300_fw_dump {
>>       __be16 fpm_b1_reg[64];
>>       __be16 risc_ram[0xf800];
>>       __be16 stack_ram[0x1000];
>> -    __be16 data_ram[1];
>> +    __be16 data_ram[];
>>   };
>>   
> 
> How has this patch been tested? Has it even been compile-tested? This
> patch probably breaks at least the following statement:
> 
>     BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct qla2300_fw_dump) != 136100);
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.

From next-20241023, it seems to have passed compilation:

  INSTALL debian/linux-libc-dev/usr/include
dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-image-6.12.0-rc4-next-20241023-00001-gdcf82889780d' in '../linux-image-6.12.0-rc4-next-20241023-00001-gdcf82889780d_6.12.0-rc4-00001-gdcf82889780d-4_amd64.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-libc-dev' in '../linux-libc-dev_6.12.0-rc4-00001-gdcf82889780d-4_amd64.deb'.
 dpkg-genbuildinfo --build=binary -O../linux-upstream_6.12.0-rc4-00001-gdcf82889780d-4_amd64.buildinfo
 dpkg-genchanges --build=binary -O../linux-upstream_6.12.0-rc4-00001-gdcf82889780d-4_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: info: binary-only upload (no source code included)
 dpkg-source --after-build .
dpkg-buildpackage: info: binary-only upload (no source included)

Perhaps I should have told that it was from the linux-next tree.

Best regards,
Mirsad