USB: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200220132017.GA29262@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-02-20 07:20:17 -06:00
提交者 Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ struct ti_i2c_desc {
__u8 Type; // Type of descriptor
__le16 Size; // Size of data only not including header
__u8 CheckSum; // Checksum (8 bit sum of data only)
__u8 Data[0]; // Data starts here
__u8 Data[]; // Data starts here
} __attribute__((packed));
// for 5152 devices only (type 2 record)
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ struct ti_i2c_desc {
struct ti_i2c_firmware_rec {
__u8 Ver_Major; // Firmware Major version number
__u8 Ver_Minor; // Firmware Minor version number
__u8 Data[0]; // Download starts here
__u8 Data[]; // Download starts here
} __attribute__((packed));