scsi: message: fusion: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:00:36 +0000 (18:00 -0500)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Fri, 2 Apr 2021 03:03:00 +0000 (23:03 -0400)
commited46ccc7fe7612eb3763346dc0389d8206f071ef
tree82785e85902a9b18cdff6bac04d5e4dfe4eeae81
parent5b11c9d80bde81f6896cc85b23aeaa9502a704ed
scsi: message: fusion: 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].

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>
drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_ioc.h