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Message-ID: <20200319230937.GA16648@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:09:37 -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>
Cc:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] nvdimm: nd.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/nvdimm/nd.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h b/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
index c4d69c1cce55..85dbb2a322b9 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct nd_region_data {
 	int ns_count;
 	int ns_active;
 	unsigned int hints_shift;
-	void __iomem *flush_wpq[0];
+	void __iomem *flush_wpq[];
 };
 
 static inline void __iomem *ndrd_get_flush_wpq(struct nd_region_data *ndrd,
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ struct nd_region {
 	struct nd_interleave_set *nd_set;
 	struct nd_percpu_lane __percpu *lane;
 	int (*flush)(struct nd_region *nd_region, struct bio *bio);
-	struct nd_mapping mapping[0];
+	struct nd_mapping mapping[];
 };
 
 struct nd_blk_region {
-- 
2.23.0