net: mlxfw: 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>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c
index 79057af4fe997a9760d58af40b40ba0f19b9d647..5d9ddf36fb4ed5421dcf8af11b31bc722e2fdcfb 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2.c
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ mlxfw_mfa2_file_component_tlv_get(const struct mlxfw_mfa2_file *mfa2_file,
 
 struct mlxfw_mfa2_comp_data {
        struct mlxfw_mfa2_component comp;
-       u8 buff[0];
+       u8 buff[];
 };
 
 static const struct mlxfw_mfa2_tlv_component_descriptor *

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2_tlv.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2_tlv.h
index 33c971190bbae193493e890b46e59c41eb06b79e..2014a5de5a0102dab79ae07b75d3c327228f8cf5 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2_tlv.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxfw/mlxfw_mfa2_tlv.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ struct mlxfw_mfa2_tlv {
        u8 version;
        u8 type;
        __be16 len;
-       u8 data[0];
+       u8 data[];
 } __packed;
 
 static inline const struct mlxfw_mfa2_tlv *