Re: [PATCH] vt: use flexible-array member instead of zero-length array

From: kernel test robot
Date: Thu Dec 31 2020 - 09:50:57 EST


Hi Tian,

I love your patch! Yet something to improve:

[auto build test ERROR on tty/tty-testing]
[also build test ERROR on v5.11-rc1 next-20201223]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Tian-Tao/vt-use-flexible-array-member-instead-of-zero-length-array/20201231-200832
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git tty-testing
config: microblaze-randconfig-r015-20201231 (attached as .config)
compiler: microblaze-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
# https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/c44b31ae1f6fc407170012bd6b5251e869299619
git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
git fetch --no-tags linux-review Tian-Tao/vt-use-flexible-array-member-instead-of-zero-length-array/20201231-200832
git checkout c44b31ae1f6fc407170012bd6b5251e869299619
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-9.3.0 make.cross ARCH=microblaze

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:335:12: error: flexible array member in a struct with no named members
335 | char32_t *lines[];
| ^~~~~


vim +335 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c

329
330 /*
331 * Our screen buffer is preceded by an array of line pointers so that
332 * scrolling only implies some pointer shuffling.
333 */
334 struct uni_screen {
> 335 char32_t *lines[];
336 };
337

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