[PATCH][next] drm/i915: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>,
	Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] drm/i915: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 16:05:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200303220503.GA2663@embeddedor> (raw)

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>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vbt_defs.h | 4 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c           | 2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.h         | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vbt_defs.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vbt_defs.h
index 05c7cbe32eb4..aef7fe932d1a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vbt_defs.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vbt_defs.h
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ struct bdb_general_definitions {
 	 * number = (block_size - sizeof(bdb_general_definitions))/
 	 *	     defs->child_dev_size;
 	 */
-	u8 devices[0];
+	u8 devices[];
 } __packed;
 
 /*
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ struct bdb_mipi_config {
 
 struct bdb_mipi_sequence {
 	u8 version;
-	u8 data[0]; /* up to 6 variable length blocks */
+	u8 data[]; /* up to 6 variable length blocks */
 } __packed;
 
 /*
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
index b9b3f78f1324..a49ddda649b9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ struct virtual_engine {
 
 	/* And finally, which physical engines this virtual engine maps onto. */
 	unsigned int num_siblings;
-	struct intel_engine_cs *siblings[0];
+	struct intel_engine_cs *siblings[];
 };
 
 static struct virtual_engine *to_virtual_engine(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.h
index 0d1f6c8ff355..5a6561f7a210 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct i915_vma_coredump {
 	int num_pages;
 	int page_count;
 	int unused;
-	u32 *pages[0];
+	u32 *pages[];
 };
 
 struct i915_request_coredump {
-- 
2.25.0

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