orinoco: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 01:14:15 +0000 (19:14 -0600)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:59:50 +0000 (18:59 +0200)
commit645aa87fdfd9e608faba215677d92de9dba6dc22
treeafdd644c90fc68e6502d640f1187ae6cd8a79176
parentbc1d50a1a485981784158c62b67c0268fdec5a10
orinoco: 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@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200225011415.GA31868@embeddedor
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