cw1200: 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/20200305111401.GA25126@embeddedor

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.h b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.h
index ddea57f..1ffa479 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.h
@@ -1623,7 +1623,7 @@ struct wsm_p2p_device_info {
        u8 local_devname[D11_MAX_SSID_LEN];
        u8 reserved2[3];
        u8 num_secdev_supported;
-       struct wsm_p2p_device_type secdevs[0];
+       struct wsm_p2p_device_type secdevs[];
 } __packed;
 
 /* 4.36 SetWCDMABand - WO */