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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].
Also, this helps with the ongoing efforts to enable -Warray-bounds by
fixing the following warning:
drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c: In function ‘mptbase_reply’:
drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:7747:62: warning: array subscript 1 is above array bounds of ‘U32[1]’ {aka ‘unsigned int[1]’} [-Warray-bounds]
7747 | ioc->events[idx].data[ii] = le32_to_cpu(pEventReply->Data[ii]);
./include/uapi/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:34:51: note: in definition of macro ‘__le32_to_cpu’
34 | #define __le32_to_cpu(x) ((__force __u32)(__le32)(x))
| ^
drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:7747:33: note: in expansion of macro ‘le32_to_cpu’
7747 | ioc->events[idx].data[ii] = le32_to_cpu(pEventReply->Data[ii]);
|
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210324230036.GA67851@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>