31/10/2022 19:24, Bing Zhao:
> With some higher GCC/CLANG version, it is not recommended to use a
> structure with a tailing flexible array inside another structure.
> Accessing this array may be considered as a risk to corrupt the
> following field even if it is by intention.
>
> The error below was observed:
>
> drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_ethdev_os.c: In function
> 'mlx5_get_flag_dropless_rq':
> drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_ethdev_os.c:1679:42: error: invalid use of
> structure with flexible array member [-Werror=pedantic]
> 1679 | struct ethtool_sset_info hdr;
> | ^~~
>
> Changing it to memory dynamic allocation method will help to get
> rid of this complain.
>
> Fixes: e848218741ea ("net/mlx5: check delay drop settings in kernel driver")
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
Applied, thanks.
For an unknown reason, our GitHub CI started to fail on Sunday
with Fedora 35. Looks like an update was done in Fedora 35.
Now it is fixed!
