net: mlxfw: 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>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ mlxfw_mfa2_file_component_tlv_get(const struct mlxfw_mfa2_file *mfa2_file,
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struct mlxfw_mfa2_comp_data {
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struct mlxfw_mfa2_component comp;
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u8 buff[0];
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u8 buff[];
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};
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static const struct mlxfw_mfa2_tlv_component_descriptor *
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ struct mlxfw_mfa2_tlv {
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u8 version;
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u8 type;
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__be16 len;
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u8 data[0];
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u8 data[];
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} __packed;
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static inline const struct mlxfw_mfa2_tlv *
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