how to create and return a struct array in C

fentry *read_fentries(FILE *fp){
    fentry *files[MAXFILES];

    // EXTRACT FENTRIES AND FNODES FROM FILE
    if ((fread(files, sizeof(fentry), MAXFILES, fp)) == 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Error: could not read file entries\n");
        closefs(fp);
        exit(1);
    }
    return files;
}