From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
To: "José Expósito" <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>
Cc: tchornyi@marvell.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: prestera: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 10:50:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211206165050.GA48639@embeddedor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211204171349.22776-1-jose.exposito89@gmail.com>
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 06:13:49PM +0100, José Expósito wrote:
> One-element and zero-length arrays are deprecated and should be
> replaced with flexible-array members:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
>
> Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member and make use
> of the struct_size() helper.
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
> Signed-off-by: José Expósito <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Thanks
--
Gustavo
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_hw.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_hw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_hw.c
> index 92cb5e9099c6..6282c9822e2b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_hw.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_hw.c
> @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ struct prestera_msg_counter_resp {
> __le32 offset;
> __le32 num_counters;
> __le32 done;
> - struct prestera_msg_counter_stats stats[0];
> + struct prestera_msg_counter_stats stats[];
> };
>
> struct prestera_msg_span_req {
> @@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ int prestera_hw_counters_get(struct prestera_switch *sw, u32 idx,
> .block_id = __cpu_to_le32(idx),
> .num_counters = __cpu_to_le32(*len),
> };
> - size_t size = sizeof(*resp) + sizeof(*resp->stats) * (*len);
> + size_t size = struct_size(resp, stats, *len);
> int err, i;
>
> resp = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> --
> 2.25.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-06 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-04 17:13 [PATCH] net: prestera: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member José Expósito
2021-12-04 17:38 ` Volodymyr Mytnyk
2021-12-06 16:50 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2021-12-07 0:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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