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].
This code was transformed with the help of Coccinelle:
(next-20220214$ spatch --jobs $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) --sp-file script.cocci --include-headers --dir . > output.patch)
@@
identifier S, member, array;
type T1, T2;
@@
struct S {
...
T1 member;
T2 array[
- 0
];
};
UAPI and wireless changes were intentionally excluded from this patch
and will be sent out separately.
[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
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
This is the initial patch for the new Emulex target mode SCSI driver.
- Create the new Emulex source level directory drivers/scsi/elx and add
the directory to the MAINTAINERS file.
- Create the first library subdirectory drivers/scsi/elx/libefc_sli. This
library is a SLI-4 interface library.
- Start the population of the libefc_sli library with definitions of SLI-4
hardware register offsets and definitions.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210601235512.20104-2-jsmart2021@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Co-developed-by: Ram Vegesna <ram.vegesna@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Vegesna <ram.vegesna@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
