From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D047C433EF for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 19:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231928AbiF1Tpk (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:45:40 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:37050 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230301AbiF1TpV (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:45:21 -0400 Received: from mail-pg1-x52e.google.com (mail-pg1-x52e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::52e]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E8FB3CA73 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pg1-x52e.google.com with SMTP id 68so13136157pgb.10 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:38:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel-dk.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject:content-language:to :cc:references:from:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=R/m0Mpk7pVuJiIWprQOno/Hpe4AFomZAEcga9jL9YLA=; b=bhe/sbwpuGVDQTIiuE1vanGErx/2iYmd4JWtUJ9ONgGYg9xWkpKeD/AFx7lxB4Z/1q 3/JOWQm0J40kHqjM7KmdJ7b0ORREudvPV3vR2QpJIMz4VsRhAFBhYmfbwJIClZhJFkcB ZTkxA1+uiy/3uB2TDvG90iKHTkB6UafPQXBXntJbSIBHIzWKiZbV96ZGLiEqTn3M1u9H A9dSVBsWM5F5qxyN8i2cxi6OmDkJEYnkrbAmHAf943MJEU9kNJq9XPps/0BsMk85UpMA +YwkTcMRPEYFzgrThZMpITDuq/jmD8Egxrgf6mJiQ3seAVjN7Wa23b/CUgZB14j4tN9v XawQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject :content-language:to:cc:references:from:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=R/m0Mpk7pVuJiIWprQOno/Hpe4AFomZAEcga9jL9YLA=; b=P5ikZgH+V3mYDFULJIBQmquLorMM3Z8YUWbXkg7W+brJZxrY04PpQb/tAK5nlhhlLC fCYQAQhc2l+XCNUpkQuy6sJjniTQCfzKUw6P5wMFb7ok400B6wuMQMNPrE7kn5fN9JEY Cd23Fh0n7ZqVZOfU7UDL3JAZsKiXXYzLSd/RNs07Aw/XLzQWfCIF6cisscBZ8DluWBkg wHBsTMRPN7q6V1yJWofgtAJo7z5vYiL47uCsf2JwnSDn/xQnjupwNqqMo9bC+ho1Zp9R fPpviBFReDAc7UdZTJBe4y9PPJCk3tfUCLFzHJFumRsA83lCicEiWzbUYNONAAsoYUu/ OdRg== X-Gm-Message-State: AJIora/n0wCOkk894vMHoDnyVXJ5CqXMcBejA5O32Ov32CmmnIB50ghn WKDdcGqyRU9o34ArruZfssFjvQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGRyM1seN+3lufLgwt0RnuEk9fybZPgxUv9NUsBwylD1Xh4AvsqeKC6WmitZPWs5OCP9YsaX9dJAfg== X-Received: by 2002:aa7:96dd:0:b0:525:8869:df13 with SMTP id h29-20020aa796dd000000b005258869df13mr6354581pfq.14.1656445127638; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPV6:2620:10d:c085:21e1::165b? ([2620:10d:c090:400::5:f46f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id g4-20020a655944000000b003fe4da67980sm9595041pgu.68.2022.06.28.12.38.46 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37147b0c-4b11-37df-6c4a-ee2dfeb9cbb7@kernel.dk> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:38:44 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] io_uring: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member Content-Language: en-US To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" , Pavel Begunkov Cc: io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org References: <20220628193320.GA52629@embeddedor> From: Jens Axboe In-Reply-To: <20220628193320.GA52629@embeddedor> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: io-uring@vger.kernel.org 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