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SubjectRe: [PATCH][next] ACPICA: iASL: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 9:36 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 02:32:40PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

I've created an upstream ACPICA pull request for this change, thanks!

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