platform/x86: i2c-multi-instantiate: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array...

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>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/i2c-multi-instantiate.c b/drivers/platform/x86/i2c-multi-instantiate.c
index ffb8d5d..6acc845 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/i2c-multi-instantiate.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/i2c-multi-instantiate.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ struct i2c_inst_data {
 
 struct i2c_multi_inst_data {
        int num_clients;
-       struct i2c_client *clients[0];
+       struct i2c_client *clients[];
 };
 
 static int i2c_multi_inst_count(struct acpi_resource *ares, void *data)