[PATCH][next] drm/vboxvideo/vboxvideo.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] drm/vboxvideo/vboxvideo.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 04:55:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200305105558.GA19124@embeddedor> (raw)

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>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vboxvideo.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vboxvideo.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vboxvideo.h
index 0592004f71aa..a5de40fe1a76 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vboxvideo.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vboxvideo.h
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ struct vbva_buffer {
 
 	u32 data_len;
 	/* variable size for the rest of the vbva_buffer area in VRAM. */
-	u8 data[0];
+	u8 data[];
 } __packed;
 
 #define VBVA_MAX_RECORD_SIZE (128 * 1024 * 1024)
-- 
2.25.0

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