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usbnet: gl620a: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:34:15 +0000 (11:34 -0600)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 01:00:54 +0000 (17:00 -0800)
commitcc727b6418004e90e1fea04d70f95e97dcf45331
tree1c6b162adcd1d5df60fe3daa1f45a0824f9c9db2
parent1054457006d4a14de4ae4132030e33d7eedaeba1
usbnet: gl620a: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220221173415.GA1149599@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c