Re: [PATCH][next] wifi: wil6210: wmi: Use __counted_by() in struct wmi_set_link_monitor_cmd and avoid -Wfamnae warning

From: Jeff Johnson
Date: Wed Mar 27 2024 - 17:01:31 EST


On 3/27/2024 11:59 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the
> __counted_by attribute. Flexible array members annotated with
> __counted_by can have their accesses bounds-checked at run-time
> via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS (for array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE
> (for strcpy/memcpy-family functions).
>
> Also, -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end is coming in GCC-14, and we are
> getting ready to enable it globally.
>
> So, use the `DEFINE_FLEX()` helper for an on-stack definition of
> a flexible structure where the size of the flexible-array member
> is known at compile-time, and refactor the rest of the code,
> accordingly.
>
> So, with these changes, fix the following warning:
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c:4018:49: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/202
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>

That DEFINE_FLEX() macro takes a bit of time to understand! But I finally
digested it so...

Reviewed-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>