From: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:16:04 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: firmware: arm_scpi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
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firmware: arm_scpi: 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.

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")

Replace the zero-length member "payload" in {legacy_,}scpi_shared_mem
structures with flexible-array.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200211231604.GA17274@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scpi.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scpi.c
index a80c331c3a6e..d0dee37ad522 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scpi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scpi.c
@@ -262,12 +262,12 @@ struct scpi_drvinfo {
 struct scpi_shared_mem {
 	__le32 command;
 	__le32 status;
-	u8 payload[0];
+	u8 payload[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct legacy_scpi_shared_mem {
 	__le32 status;
-	u8 payload[0];
+	u8 payload[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct scp_capabilities {