staging: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:29:08 +0000 (07:29 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:18:54 +0000 (19:18 +0100)
commit5979afa2c4d1c8acce28a176ebe27ea13265626a
treea4713b48315ba2506284f2e376c65ff0af3c871b
parentcf7e44daa727bf4868a4b3be380829db52a2762d
staging: 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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200220132908.GA30501@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
14 files changed:
drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_mux.h
drivers/staging/gdm724x/hci_packet.h
drivers/staging/greybus/audio_apbridgea.h
drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.h
drivers/staging/media/allegro-dvt/allegro-core.c
drivers/staging/octeon-usb/octeon-hcd.c
drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.h
drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h
drivers/staging/rtl8712/ieee80211.h
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mp_ioctl.h
drivers/staging/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
drivers/staging/wilc1000/spi.c
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211types.h