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Date:   Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:26:13 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Gustavo A. R. Silva" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: irq/core] irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1: Replace zero-length array
 with flexible-array member

The following commit has been merged into the irq/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     b2e1cbfd2d4af6f0797ed259de5f48e7dde60014
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/b2e1cbfd2d4af6f0797ed259de5f48e7dde60014
Author:        Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:44:38 -05:00
Committer:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 11:52:52 

irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1: 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>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200319214438.GA21123@embeddedor.com
---
 drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c
index cbf01af..eb9bce9 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ struct bcm7038_l1_chip {
 
 struct bcm7038_l1_cpu {
 	void __iomem		*map_base;
-	u32			mask_cache[0];
+	u32			mask_cache[];
 };
 
 /*