Bluetooth: hci_intel: 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
inadvertenly 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: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_intel.c b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_intel.c
index 31f25153087d760a4ed872da5b830ee9ff29c496..f1299da6eed8a3b1e99767e16212d68993af1f20 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_intel.c
+++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_intel.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 struct hci_lpm_pkt {
        __u8 opcode;
        __u8 dlen;
-       __u8 data[0];
+       __u8 data[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct intel_device {