Re: [PATCH][next] ALSA: virtio: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

Takashi Iwai
2021-09-30T11:48:19Z

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