brcmfmac: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 02:08:04 +0000 (20:08 -0600)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:12:12 +0000 (19:12 +0200)
commit232c897eb5ca21fce241f75b98c78f2cb36af00f
treef522eb4105a5d9119bf5f11a7ef84488283df53e
parent2a6be797d232a4aec7be013964a5c2b8a1a46a3e
brcmfmac: 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>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200225020804.GA9428@embeddedor
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.h
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c