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Date:   Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:36:46 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc:     Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
        Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
        devel@acpica.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ACPICA: iASL: Replace zero-length array with
 flexible-array member
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 02:32:40PM -0600, 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
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook