Re: [PATCH] wil6210: avoid gcc-10 zero-length-bounds warning

[Kalle Valo]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> gcc-10 warns about accesses inside of a zero-length array:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c: In function 'wil_cfg80211_scan':
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c:970:23: error: array
> subscript 255 is outside the bounds of an interior zero-length array
> 'struct <anonymous>[0]' [-Werror=zero-length-bounds]
>   970 |   cmd.cmd.channel_list[cmd.cmd.num_channels++].channel = ch - 1;
>       |   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wil6210.h:17,
>                  from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c:11:
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.h:477:4: note: while referencing 'channel_list'
>   477 |  } channel_list[0];
>       |    ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Turn this into a flexible array to avoid the warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Gustavo has a patch to do it for all arrays in this file, and that
> should get merged as well, but this simpler patch is sufficient
> to shut up the warning.

I don't see Gustavo's patch yet so I'll take this one first.

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