[PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

cgel.zte at gmail.com cgel.zte at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 00:55:37 PDT 2022


From: Lv Ruyi <lv.ruyi at zte.com.cn>

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/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci at zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Lv Ruyi <lv.ruyi at zte.com.cn>
---
 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/clock.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/clock.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/clock.c
index cf6fed6dec77..d753c040b6e8 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/clock.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/clock.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct scmi_msg_resp_clock_describe_rates {
 	struct {
 		__le32 value_low;
 		__le32 value_high;
-	} rate[0];
+	} rate[];
 #define RATE_TO_U64(X)		\
 ({				\
 	typeof(X) x = (X);	\
-- 
2.25.1




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