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staging: rtl8188eu: Replace one-element array with flexible-array in 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: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304020228.GA45139@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/wlan_bssdef.h
··· 64 64 struct ndis_802_11_var_ie { 65 65 u8 ElementID; 66 66 u8 Length; 67 - u8 data[1]; 67 + u8 data[]; 68 68 }; 69 69 70 70 /*