From a38283da05d321fa1fce38ea3cf41c9f1dbd1f21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:50:19 -0500 Subject: printk: ringbuffer: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva --- kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/printk') diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c index 24a960a89aa8..6b1525685277 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ DESC_ID((id) - DESCS_COUNT(desc_ring)) */ struct prb_data_block { unsigned long id; - char data[0]; + char data[]; }; /* -- cgit v1.2.3