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Gustavo A. R. Silva Sept. 26, 2022, 9:50 p.m. UTC
Zero-length arrays are deprecated and we are moving towards adopting
C99 flexible-array members, instead. So, replace zero-length arrays
declarations in anonymous union with the new DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY()
helper macro.

This helper allows for flexible-array members in unions.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/193
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/222
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Kees Cook Sept. 26, 2022, 10:02 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 04:50:42PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Zero-length arrays are deprecated and we are moving towards adopting
> C99 flexible-array members, instead. So, replace zero-length arrays
> declarations in anonymous union with the new DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY()
> helper macro.
> 
> This helper allows for flexible-array members in unions.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/193
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/222
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.h
index 48241317a535..0db41fa4a9a6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.h
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@  struct mlx5_flow_attr {
 	} lag;
 	/* keep this union last */
 	union {
-		struct mlx5_esw_flow_attr esw_attr[0];
-		struct mlx5_nic_flow_attr nic_attr[0];
+		DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(struct mlx5_esw_flow_attr, esw_attr);
+		DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(struct mlx5_nic_flow_attr, nic_attr);
 	};
 };