[PATCH] USB: atm: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Feb 11 2020 - 18:19:20 EST


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

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.c b/drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.c
index 2754b4ce7136..25cf94131987 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.c
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ struct l1_code {
u8 string_header[E4_L1_STRING_HEADER];
u8 page_number_to_block_index[E4_MAX_PAGE_NUMBER];
struct block_index page_header[E4_NO_SWAPPAGE_HEADERS];
- u8 code[0];
+ u8 code[];
} __packed;

/* structures describing a block within a DSP page */
--
2.25.0