linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v2] md/raid5: Convert stripe

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2023 22:55:54 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] md/raid5: Convert stripe_head's "dev" to flexible
 array member

On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 02:21:15PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> -	} dev[1]; /* allocated with extra space depending of RAID geometry */
> +	} dev[]; /* allocated with extra space depending of RAID geometry */

I still think this should be:

	/* allocated depending of RAID geometry */

now or dropped entirely, as the extra only made sense when it always
had that magic one.

The actual code changes looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>