Re: new checkpatch flexible array test ? (was Re: [PATCH v4 12/14] gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add RPC for console services)

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 06:46:30PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 14:22 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 12:56:31PM -0700, Elliot Berman wrote:
> > > Gunyah resource manager defines a simple API for virtual machine log
> > > sharing with the console service.
> []
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/gunyah_rsc_mgr.h b/include/linux/gunyah_rsc_mgr.h
> []
> > > +struct gh_rm_notif_vm_console_chars {
> > > +	u16 vmid;
> > > +	u16 num_bytes;
> > > +	u8 bytes[0];
> > 
> > Please do not use [0] for new structures, otherwise we will just have to
> > fix them up again as we are trying to get rid of all of these from the
> > kernel. Just use "bytes[];" instead.
> 
> Maybe a checkpatch addition like:
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 2737e4ced5745..187ed84c1f80a 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3948,6 +3948,17 @@ sub process {
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> +# check for zero length array declarations in likely structs
> +		if ($line =~ /^\+\t($Declare\s*$Ident)\s*\[\s*0\s*\]\s*;\s*$/ &&
> +		    defined $lines[$linenr] &&
> +		    $lines[$linenr] =~ /^[\+ ]\}\s*(?:__\w+\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?)\s*;\s*$/) {
> +			if (WARN("FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_ZERO",
> +				 "Prefer flexible length array declarations with [] over [0]\n" . $herecurr) &&
> +			    $fix) {
> +				$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\[\s*0\s*\]/[]/;
> +			}
> +		}
> +
>  # check for multiple consecutive blank lines
>  		if ($prevline =~ /^[\+ ]\s*$/ &&
>  		    $line =~ /^\+\s*$/ &&

This is a question for Gustavo, who did all the work here.  Gustavo,
does the above checkpatch change look good to you?

thanks,

greg k-h