[PATCH][next] cifs: cifspdu.h: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

Steve French smfrench at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 04:23:06 UTC 2021


merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:02 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavo at embeddedor.com> wrote:
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>
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> On 3/26/21 10:54, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> > "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars at kernel.org> writes:
> >> 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].
> >
> > I've checked the usages of the struct, looks OK (we don't allocate it
> > directly, we use memory from the small/big buff pools).
>
> Awesome. :)
>
> > Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel at suse.com>
>
> Thank you, Aurelien.
> --
> Gustavo



-- 
Thanks,

Steve



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