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…struct ndis_802_11_var_ie

There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].

Use flexible-array member in struct ndis_802_11_var_ie, instead of
one-element array.

Also, this helps with the ongoing efforts to enable -Warray-bounds by
fixing the following warning:

drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c: In function ‘HT_caps_handler’:
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c:665:65: warning: array subscript 2 is above array bounds of ‘u8[1]’ {aka ‘unsigned char[1]’} [-Warray-bounds]
  665 |    if ((pmlmeinfo->HT_caps.ampdu_params_info & 0x3) > (pIE->data[i] & 0x3))
      |                                                        ~~~~~~~~~^~~

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: KSPP#79
Link: KSPP#109
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
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GustavoARSilva authored and intel-lab-lkp committed Mar 4, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ struct ndis_802_11_fixed_ie {
struct ndis_802_11_var_ie {
u8 ElementID;
u8 Length;
u8 data[1];
u8 data[];
};

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