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[next] usbnet: gl620a: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

Message ID 20220221173415.GA1149599@embeddedor (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit cc727b6418004e90e1fea04d70f95e97dcf45331
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Series [next] usbnet: gl620a: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member | expand

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Gustavo A. R. Silva Feb. 21, 2022, 5:34 p.m. UTC
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].

This helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable -Warray-bounds
and get us closer to being able to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE routines
on memcpy().

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed,
manually.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
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 drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c b/drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c
index 13a9a83b8538..46af78caf457 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ 
 
 struct gl_packet {
 	__le32		packet_length;
-	char		packet_data [1];
+	char		packet_data[];
 };
 
 struct gl_header {