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

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

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

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/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c | 2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c
index f07aa857587c..60cfbfadd3f2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ struct vmw_bo_dirty {
 	unsigned int ref_count;
 	unsigned long bitmap_size;
 	size_t size;
-	unsigned long bitmap[0];
+	unsigned long bitmap[];
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
index 3ce630aa4fde..ec893cd17b50 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ struct vmw_surface_dirty {
 	struct svga3dsurface_cache cache;
 	size_t size;
 	u32 num_subres;
-	SVGA3dBox boxes[0];
+	SVGA3dBox boxes[];
 };
 
 static void vmw_user_surface_free(struct vmw_resource *res);
-- 
2.25.0

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

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

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/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c | 2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c
index f07aa857587c..60cfbfadd3f2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ struct vmw_bo_dirty {
 	unsigned int ref_count;
 	unsigned long bitmap_size;
 	size_t size;
-	unsigned long bitmap[0];
+	unsigned long bitmap[];
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
index 3ce630aa4fde..ec893cd17b50 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ struct vmw_surface_dirty {
 	struct svga3dsurface_cache cache;
 	size_t size;
 	u32 num_subres;
-	SVGA3dBox boxes[0];
+	SVGA3dBox boxes[];
 };
 
 static void vmw_user_surface_free(struct vmw_resource *res);
-- 
2.25.0