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>
This commit is contained in:
Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-02-20 07:20:17 -06:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 2f41c8a25f
commit 6bc3f3979e
16 changed files with 22 additions and 22 deletions

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@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ struct usb_interface_cache {
/* variable-length array of alternate settings for this interface,
* stored in no particular order */
struct usb_host_interface altsetting[0];
struct usb_host_interface altsetting[];
};
#define ref_to_usb_interface_cache(r) \
container_of(r, struct usb_interface_cache, ref)
@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ struct urb {
int error_count; /* (return) number of ISO errors */
void *context; /* (in) context for completion */
usb_complete_t complete; /* (in) completion routine */
struct usb_iso_packet_descriptor iso_frame_desc[0];
struct usb_iso_packet_descriptor iso_frame_desc[];
/* (in) ISO ONLY */
};