drm/gma500/intel_bios.h: 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: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200305105306.GA18788@embeddedor

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h
index a1f9ce9465a51660545b129d1f9c0843dafbdaf3..0e6facf21e332ccf199364d10f86939418106ada 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ struct bdb_general_definitions {
         * number = (block_size - sizeof(bdb_general_definitions))/
         *           sizeof(child_device_config);
         */
-       struct child_device_config devices[0];
+       struct child_device_config devices[];
 };
 
 struct bdb_lvds_options {