net: atlantic: 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.h
index 42f0c5c6ec2d03b59674ada0f028c772b564bab6..6b4f701e700681ecb180190a534dba6048f9e00e 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.h
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ struct __packed offload_info {
        struct offload_port_info ports;
        struct offload_ka_info kas;
        struct offload_rr_info rrs;
-       u8 buf[0];
+       u8 buf[];
 };
 
 struct __packed hw_atl_utils_fw_rpc {