Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2021-12-07

Re: [PATCH] net: prestera: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-12-06 16:45:32
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On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 06:13:49PM +0100, José Expósito wrote:
One-element and zero-length arrays are deprecated and should be
replaced with flexible-array members:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member and make use
of the struct_size() helper.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Signed-off-by: José Expósito <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>

Thanks
--
Gustavo
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---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_hw.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_hw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_hw.c
index 92cb5e9099c6..6282c9822e2b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_hw.c
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ struct prestera_msg_counter_resp {
 	__le32 offset;
 	__le32 num_counters;
 	__le32 done;
-	struct prestera_msg_counter_stats stats[0];
+	struct prestera_msg_counter_stats stats[];
 };
 
 struct prestera_msg_span_req {
@@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ int prestera_hw_counters_get(struct prestera_switch *sw, u32 idx,
 		.block_id = __cpu_to_le32(idx),
 		.num_counters = __cpu_to_le32(*len),
 	};
-	size_t size = sizeof(*resp) + sizeof(*resp->stats) * (*len);
+	size_t size = struct_size(resp, stats, *len);
 	int err, i;
 
 	resp = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
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