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>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c b/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c
index 9ad9c01..910f059 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ struct mkhi_rule_id {
 struct mkhi_fwcaps {
        struct mkhi_rule_id id;
        u8 len;
-       u8 data[0];
+       u8 data[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct mkhi_fw_ver_block {
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ struct mkhi_msg_hdr {
 
 struct mkhi_msg {
        struct mkhi_msg_hdr hdr;
-       u8 data[0];
+       u8 data[];
 } __packed;
 
 #define MKHI_OSVER_BUF_LEN (sizeof(struct mkhi_msg_hdr) + \