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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] KSPP#21
[3] commit 7649773 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
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GustavoARSilva authored and martinkpetersen committed Mar 27, 2020
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.h
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Expand Up @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ struct fw_event_work {
MPT_ADAPTER *ioc;
u32 event;
u8 retries;
char event_data[0] __aligned(4);
char event_data[] __aligned(4);
};

struct mptsas_discovery_event {
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