Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: cls_u32: Use flexible-array member

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 1:36 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
[off-list ref] wrote:

Old code in the kernel uses 1-byte and 0-byte arrays to indicate the
presence of a "variable length array":

struct something {
    int length;
    u8 data[1];
};

struct something *instance;

instance = kmalloc(sizeof(*instance) + size, GFP_KERNEL);
instance->length = size;
memcpy(instance->data, source, size);

Hmm, your patch is not correct, for u32 it is length+1, so you have
to allocate size+1 after you switch to zero-length array.

Take a look at u32_walk() if you have any doubt.

Thanks.