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Gustavo A. R. Silva Sept. 26, 2022, 9:49 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/220
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
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 drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2200.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Kees Cook Sept. 26, 2022, 10:02 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 04:49:04PM -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/220
> 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>
Kalle Valo Sept. 28, 2022, 6:44 a.m. UTC | #2
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org> 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/220
> 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>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

413cda95648d ipw2x00: Replace zero-length array with DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2200.h b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2200.h
index 55cac934f4ee..09ddd21608d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2200.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2200.h
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@  struct ipw_rx_notification {
 		struct notif_link_deterioration link_deterioration;
 		struct notif_calibration calibration;
 		struct notif_noise noise;
-		u8 raw[0];
+		DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(u8, raw);
 	} u;
 } __packed;