memstick: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

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]

sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.

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 <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507192218.GA16315@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/memstick.h b/include/linux/memstick.h
index 216a713bef7f0e001a11cc480ecb3d72ea990ff7..da4c65f9435ff13a4addce29dd5a9eb13f46b370 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/memstick.h
+++ b/include/linux/memstick.h
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ struct memstick_host {
        int                 (*set_param)(struct memstick_host *host,
                                         enum memstick_param param,
                                         int value);
-       unsigned long       private[0] ____cacheline_aligned;
+       unsigned long       private[] ____cacheline_aligned;
 };
 
 struct memstick_driver {