linux-kernel - [PATCH][next] acpi: nfit.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:50:46 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] acpi: nfit.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")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/nfit/nfit.h | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/nfit/nfit.h b/drivers/acpi/nfit/nfit.h
index 24241941181c..af09143ce403 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/nfit/nfit.h
+++ b/drivers/acpi/nfit/nfit.h
@@ -144,32 +144,32 @@ struct nfit_spa {
 	unsigned long ars_state;
 	u32 clear_err_unit;
 	u32 max_ars;
-	struct acpi_nfit_system_address spa[0];
+	struct acpi_nfit_system_address spa[];
 };
 
 struct nfit_dcr {
 	struct list_head list;
-	struct acpi_nfit_control_region dcr[0];
+	struct acpi_nfit_control_region dcr[];
 };
 
 struct nfit_bdw {
 	struct list_head list;
-	struct acpi_nfit_data_region bdw[0];
+	struct acpi_nfit_data_region bdw[];
 };
 
 struct nfit_idt {
 	struct list_head list;
-	struct acpi_nfit_interleave idt[0];
+	struct acpi_nfit_interleave idt[];
 };
 
 struct nfit_flush {
 	struct list_head list;
-	struct acpi_nfit_flush_address flush[0];
+	struct acpi_nfit_flush_address flush[];
 };
 
 struct nfit_memdev {
 	struct list_head list;
-	struct acpi_nfit_memory_map memdev[0];
+	struct acpi_nfit_memory_map memdev[];
 };
 
 enum nfit_mem_flags {
-- 
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