Re: [PATCH] ACPI: NFIT: fix flexible_array.cocci warnings

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Dec 24 2020 - 13:15:58 EST


On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:10 PM Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Zero-length and one-element arrays are deprecated, see
> Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
> Flexible-array members should be used instead.
>
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/flexible_array.cocci
>
> Fixes: 7b36c1398fb6 ("coccinelle: misc: add flexible_array.cocci script")
> CC: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx>

Hmm, this triggers:

drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c:2276:4: error: flexible array member in a
struct with no named members
drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c:2287:4: error: flexible array member in a
struct with no named members

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 10.2.1 20201016 (Red Hat 10.2.1-6)

I'll need to circle back to this later.