wireless: marvell: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 02:04:13 +0000 (20:04 -0600)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:11:09 +0000 (19:11 +0200)
commit2a6be797d232a4aec7be013964a5c2b8a1a46a3e
treee5922f955bcd68a8644cf6a26be57f1e1cfd6113
parent7b9307134058cefb9c2416266a7ae6fc4af57915
wireless: marvell: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Acked-by: Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi.bhat@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200225020413.GA8057@embeddedor
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas_tf/if_usb.h
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwl8k.c