From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Anton Yakovlev <anton.yakovlev@opensynergy.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ALSA: virtio: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:48:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hsfxmjncw.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210929191504.GA337268@embeddedor>
On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:15:04 +0200,
Gustavo A. R. Silva 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 kzalloc().
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Thanks, applied.
Takashi
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