chelsio: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:30:24 +0000 (10:30 -0600)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:26:17 +0000 (15:26 -0800)
commit65dc2f1a44df01eab3c93b7ecdd3fb393f9e81a2
treee63527dd8045b57f18bdb791c2de7256717b21a1
parent59bc954c7a2572e1c903012ab722eba942a5d65c
chelsio: 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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
13 files changed:
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_ioctl.h
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/t3_cpl.h
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.h
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_entity.h
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.h
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32_parse.h
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.h
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/smt.h
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_msg.h
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4fw_api.h
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/libcxgb/libcxgb_ppm.h