[PATCH v2 18/18] media: venus: Refactor hfi_buffer_alloc_mode_supported

Bryan O'Donoghue bryan.odonoghue at linaro.org
Thu May 9 17:09:01 PDT 2024


On 07/05/2024 17:27, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> Replace the old style single element array at the end of the struct with
> a flex array.
> 
> The code does not allocate this structure, so the size change should not
> be a problem.
> 
> This fixes the following cocci warning:
> drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_helper.h:1233:5-9: WARNING use flexible-array member instead (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda at chromium.org>
> ---
>   drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_helper.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_helper.h b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_helper.h
> index dee439ea4d2e..9545c964a428 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_helper.h
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_helper.h
> @@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ struct hfi_interlace_format_supported {
>   struct hfi_buffer_alloc_mode_supported {
>   	u32 buffer_type;
>   	u32 num_entries;
> -	u32 data[1];
> +	u32 data[];
>   };
>   
>   struct hfi_metadata_pass_through {
> 

You have some fairly inconsistent fixes for this class.

Please don't change the sizeof() any structures in your series, because 
the structure is unallocated changing the size is potentially insidious IMO.

data[1] -> data is perfectly fine in this case.

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