Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:38:44 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH][next] io_uring: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member | From | Jens Axboe <> |
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On 6/28/22 1:33 PM, 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
Thanks for sending this separately. As mentioned out-of-band, we already have it like this in the io_uring.h header in liburing.
Applied for 5.20.
-- Jens Axboe
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