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nfp: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

Message ID 20201204125601.24876-1-simon.horman@netronome.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series nfp: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member | expand

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Commit Message

Simon Horman Dec. 4, 2020, 12:56 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].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens@netronome.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/crypto/fw.h       | 2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Jakub Kicinski Dec. 5, 2020, 12:01 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri,  4 Dec 2020 13:56:01 +0100 Simon Horman 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].
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
> 
> Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens@netronome.com>

Applied, thank you!
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/crypto/fw.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/crypto/fw.h
index 8d1458896bcb..dcb67c2b5e5e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/crypto/fw.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/crypto/fw.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@  struct nfp_crypto_req_add_front {
 	__be16 ipver_vlan __packed;
 	u8 l4_proto;
 #define NFP_NET_TLS_NON_ADDR_KEY_LEN	8
-	u8 l3_addrs[0];
+	u8 l3_addrs[];
 };
 
 struct nfp_crypto_req_add_back {
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c
index f18e787fa9ad..10e7d8b21c46 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c
@@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@  int nfp_nsp_read_module_eeprom(struct nfp_nsp *state, int eth_index,
 		__le16 offset;
 		__le16 readlen;
 		u8 eth_index;
-		u8 data[0];
+		u8 data[];
 	} __packed *buf;
 	int bufsz, ret;