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Gustavo A. R. Silva
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One-element arrays are deprecated, and we are replacing them with flexible
array members instead. However, in this case it seems those one-element
arrays have never actually been used as fake flexible arrays.
See this code that dates from Linux-2.6.12-rc2 initial git repository build
(commit 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")):
sound/pci/mixart/mixart_core.h:
215 struct mixart_stream_state_req
216 {
217 u32 delayed;
218 u64 scheduler;
219 u32 reserved4np[3];
220 u32 stream_count; /* set to 1 for instance */
221 struct mixart_flow_info stream_info; /* could be an array[stream_count] */
222 } __attribute__((packed));
sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c:
388
389 memset(&stream_state_req, 0, sizeof(stream_state_req));
390 stream_state_req.stream_count = 1;
391 stream_state_req.stream_info.stream_desc.uid_pipe = stream->pipe->group_uid;
392 stream_state_req.stream_info.stream_desc.stream_idx = stream->substream->number;
393
So, taking the code above as example, replace multiple one-element
arrays with simple object declarations, and refactor the rest of the
code, accordingly.
This helps with the ongoing efforts to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE
routines on memcpy() and help us make progress towards globally
enabling -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 [1].
This results in no differences in binary output.
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/296
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [1]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZGfiFjcL8+r3mayq@work
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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