mailbox: zynqmp-ipi-message: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:19:18 +0000 (10:19 -0500)
committerGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:22:59 +0000 (17:22 -0500)
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].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9-rc1/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
include/linux/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-message.h

index 9542b41..35ce84c 100644 (file)
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  */
 struct zynqmp_ipi_message {
        size_t len;
-       u8 data[0];
+       u8 data[];
 };
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_ZYNQMP_IPI_MESSAGE_H_ */