mei: bus: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:08:22 +0000 (15:08 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:03:19 +0000 (14:03 -0800)
commit6736041f9606f195339cacb4bcce232f1a2a1ed3
tree790752293ed46908735f3667a45836c967ec19ce
parentd0cff8adce1370c03ddb2ccb4d8c2921e00181c4
mei: bus: 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
inadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

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/20200211210822.GA31368@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c