firmware: google: vpd: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:32:33 +0000 (09:32 -0600)
committerGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 04:08:21 +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/google/vpd.c

index db08122..d23c5c6 100644 (file)
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ struct vpd_cbmem {
        u32 version;
        u32 ro_size;
        u32 rw_size;
-       u8  blob[0];
+       u8  blob[];
 };
 
 struct vpd_section {