From a38283da05d321fa1fce38ea3cf41c9f1dbd1f21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:50:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] printk: ringbuffer: Replace zero-length array with
 flexible-array member
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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/v5.9/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c
index 24a960a89aa890..6b152568527708 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ DESC_ID((id) - DESCS_COUNT(desc_ring))
  */
 struct prb_data_block {
 	unsigned long	id;
-	char		data[0];
+	char		data[];
 };
 
 /*
-- 
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