[PATCH] stm class: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

[PATCH] stm class: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

[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]

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 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c |    2 +-
 drivers/hwtracing/stm/stm.h    |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c
index 4f932a419752..603b4a9969d3 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct stp_policy_node {
 	unsigned int		first_channel;
 	unsigned int		last_channel;
 	/* this is the one that's exposed to the attributes */
-	unsigned char		priv[0];
+	unsigned char		priv[];
 };
 
 void *stp_policy_node_priv(struct stp_policy_node *pn)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/stm.h b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/stm.h
index 3569439d53bb..a9be49fc7a6b 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/stm.h
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/stm.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ void *stp_policy_node_priv(struct stp_policy_node *pn);
 
 struct stp_master {
 	unsigned int	nr_free;
-	unsigned long	chan_map[0];
+	unsigned long	chan_map[];
 };
 
 struct stm_device {
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct stm_device {
 	const struct config_item_type		*pdrv_node_type;
 	/* master allocation */
 	spinlock_t		mc_lock;
-	struct stp_master	*masters[0];
+	struct stp_master	*masters[];
 };
 
 #define to_stm_device(_d)				\