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lib/ts_fsm.c: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 03:10:03 +0000 (20:10 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 17:43:43 +0000 (10:43 -0700)
commit65d5eabb00cc830b836e5106e902b64bf94698fc
treea4337052eccb94f01f54482c4c3257fc5292f8e4
parentc457db17db3f671d45f901eec18e9370aaf277ea
lib/ts_fsm.c: 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 4287773bdd7a ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200211205813.GA25602@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/ts_fsm.c