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: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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