[PATCH][next] scsi: mptlan: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Wed Mar 24 2021 - 20:34:51 EST


There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].

Refactor the code according to the use of a flexible-array member in
struct _SGE_TRANSACTION32 instead of one-element array.

Also, this helps with the ongoing efforts to enable -Warray-bounds by
fixing the following warning:

CC [M] drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.o
drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c: In function ‘mpt_lan_sdu_send’:
drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c:759:28: warning: array subscript 1 is above array bounds of ‘U32[1]’ {aka ‘unsigned int[1]’} [-Warray-bounds]
759 | pTrans->TransactionDetails[1] = cpu_to_le32((mac[2] << 24) |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi.h | 4 ++--
drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c | 9 +++------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi.h b/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi.h
index a575545d681f..eccbe54d43f3 100644
--- a/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi.h
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi.h
@@ -424,8 +424,8 @@ typedef struct _SGE_TRANSACTION32
U8 ContextSize;
U8 DetailsLength;
U8 Flags;
- U32 TransactionContext[1];
- U32 TransactionDetails[1];
+ U32 TransactionContext;
+ U32 TransactionDetails[];
} SGE_TRANSACTION32, MPI_POINTER PTR_SGE_TRANSACTION32,
SGETransaction32_t, MPI_POINTER pSGETransaction32_t;

diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
index 7d3784aa20e5..3261cac762de 100644
--- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
@@ -72,9 +72,6 @@ MODULE_VERSION(my_VERSION);
#define MPT_LAN_RECEIVE_POST_REQUEST_SIZE \
(sizeof(LANReceivePostRequest_t) - sizeof(SGE_MPI_UNION))

-#define MPT_LAN_TRANSACTION32_SIZE \
- (sizeof(SGETransaction32_t) - sizeof(u32))
-
/*
* Fusion MPT LAN private structures
*/
@@ -745,7 +742,7 @@ mpt_lan_sdu_send (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
pTrans->ContextSize = sizeof(u32);
pTrans->DetailsLength = 2 * sizeof(u32);
pTrans->Flags = 0;
- pTrans->TransactionContext[0] = cpu_to_le32(ctx);
+ pTrans->TransactionContext = cpu_to_le32(ctx);

// dioprintk((KERN_INFO MYNAM ": %s/%s: BC = %08x, skb = %p, buff = %p\n",
// IOC_AND_NETDEV_NAMES_s_s(dev),
@@ -1159,7 +1156,7 @@ mpt_lan_post_receive_buckets(struct mpt_lan_priv *priv)
__func__, buckets, curr));

max = (mpt_dev->req_sz - MPT_LAN_RECEIVE_POST_REQUEST_SIZE) /
- (MPT_LAN_TRANSACTION32_SIZE + sizeof(SGESimple64_t));
+ (sizeof(SGETransaction32_t) + sizeof(SGESimple64_t));

while (buckets) {
mf = mpt_get_msg_frame(LanCtx, mpt_dev);
@@ -1234,7 +1231,7 @@ mpt_lan_post_receive_buckets(struct mpt_lan_priv *priv)
pTrans->ContextSize = sizeof(u32);
pTrans->DetailsLength = 0;
pTrans->Flags = 0;
- pTrans->TransactionContext[0] = cpu_to_le32(ctx);
+ pTrans->TransactionContext = cpu_to_le32(ctx);

pSimple = (SGESimple64_t *) pTrans->TransactionDetails;

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