From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Don Brace <don.brace@microchip.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
storagedev@microchip.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: smartpqi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 23:01:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1pmucojub.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210810210741.GA58765@embeddedor> (Gustavo A. R. Silva's message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:07:41 -0500")
Gustavo,
> 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].
Applied to 5.15/scsi-staging, thanks!
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-17 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-10 21:07 [PATCH][next] scsi: smartpqi: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-08-17 3:01 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2021-08-23 22:12 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-08-24 4:02 ` Martin K. Petersen
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