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Commit a0947081 authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva's avatar Gustavo A. R. Silva Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/uv/time: Use a flexible array in struct uv_rtc_timer_head

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].

struct uv_rtc_timer_head contains a one-element array cpu[1]. Switch it
to a flexible array and use the struct_size() helper to calculate the
allocation size. Also, save some heap space in the process[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9-rc1/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200518190114.GA7757@embeddedor/



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Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201001145608.GA10204@embeddedor
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