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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")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200214172022.GA27490@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
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GustavoARSilva authored and dtor committed Feb 15, 2020
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions drivers/input/keyboard/tca6416-keypad.c
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Expand Up @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, tca6416_id);

struct tca6416_drv_data {
struct input_dev *input;
struct tca6416_button data[0];
struct tca6416_button data[];
};

struct tca6416_keypad_chip {
Expand All @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct tca6416_keypad_chip {
int irqnum;
u16 pinmask;
bool use_polling;
struct tca6416_button buttons[0];
struct tca6416_button buttons[];
};

static int tca6416_write_reg(struct tca6416_keypad_chip *chip, int reg, u16 val)
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