firmware: dmi-sysfs: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:15:44 +0000 (09:15 -0600)
committerGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 04:08:04 +0000 (23:08 -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://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c

index b618002..8b8127f 100644 (file)
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ struct dmi_system_event_log {
        u8      header_format;
        u8      type_descriptors_supported_count;
        u8      per_log_type_descriptor_length;
-       u8      supported_log_type_descriptos[0];
+       u8      supported_log_type_descriptos[];
 } __packed;
 
 #define DMI_SYSFS_SEL_FIELD(_field) \