udf: udf_sb.h: 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")

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200309202715.GA9428@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

diff --git a/fs/udf/udf_sb.h b/fs/udf/udf_sb.h
index 3d83be5..758efe5 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/udf/udf_sb.h
+++ b/fs/udf/udf_sb.h
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ struct udf_virtual_data {
 struct udf_bitmap {
        __u32                   s_extPosition;
        int                     s_nr_groups;
-       struct buffer_head      *s_block_bitmap[0];
+       struct buffer_head      *s_block_bitmap[];
 };
 
 struct udf_part_map {