Re: [PATCH v2] bpf: use flexible array members, not zero-length

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

On 9/30/19 02:38, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> This switches zero-length arrays in variable-length structs to C99
> flexible array members. GCC will then ensure that the arrays are
> always the last element in the struct.
> 
> Coccinelle:
> @@
> identifier S, fld;
> type T;
> @@
> 
> struct S {
>   ...
>   T fld[
> - 0
>   ];
>   ...
> };
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx>
> ---

What changed in v2?

You should include a changelog here.

I encourage you to read the following document:

https://kernelnewbies.org/Outreachyfirstpatch

In particular this section "Versioning one patch revision"

Also, always CC the lkml: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks
--
Gustavo



>  Documentation/bpf/btf.rst       | 2 +-
>  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c          | 2 +-
>  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/btf.rst b/Documentation/bpf/btf.rst
> index 4d565d202ce3..24ce50fc1fc1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/bpf/btf.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/bpf/btf.rst
> @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ func_info for each specific ELF section.::
>          __u32   sec_name_off; /* offset to section name */
>          __u32   num_info;
>          /* Followed by num_info * record_size number of bytes */
> -        __u8    data[0];
> +        __u8    data[];
>       };
>  
>  Here, num_info must be greater than 0.
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> index e0276520171b..c02ea0e1a588 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> @@ -5577,7 +5577,7 @@ static struct perf_buffer *__perf_buffer__new(int map_fd, size_t page_cnt,
>  struct perf_sample_raw {
>  	struct perf_event_header header;
>  	uint32_t size;
> -	char data[0];
> +	char data[];
>  };
>  
>  struct perf_sample_lost {
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h
> index 2e83a34f8c79..930ada2276bf 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ struct btf_ext_info_sec {
>  	__u32	sec_name_off;
>  	__u32	num_info;
>  	/* Followed by num_info * record_size number of bytes */
> -	__u8	data[0];
> +	__u8	data[];
>  };
>  
>  /* The minimum bpf_func_info checked by the loader */
>