mainlining shenanigans
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]. Also, this helps with the ongoing efforts to enable -Warray-bounds by fixing the following warning: drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c: In function ‘mptbase_reply’: drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:7747:62: warning: array subscript 1 is above array bounds of ‘U32[1]’ {aka ‘unsigned int[1]’} [-Warray-bounds] 7747 | ioc->events[idx].data[ii] = le32_to_cpu(pEventReply->Data[ii]); ./include/uapi/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:34:51: note: in definition of macro ‘__le32_to_cpu’ 34 | #define __le32_to_cpu(x) ((__force __u32)(__le32)(x)) | ^ drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:7747:33: note: in expansion of macro ‘le32_to_cpu’ 7747 | ioc->events[idx].data[ii] = le32_to_cpu(pEventReply->Data[ii]); | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79 Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210324230036.GA67851@embeddedor Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> |
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README |
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.