drm/i915: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
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]
sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.
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 <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200507185408.GA14561@embeddedor
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@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ struct bdb_general_definitions {
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* number = (block_size - sizeof(bdb_general_definitions))/
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* defs->child_dev_size;
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*/
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u8 devices[0];
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u8 devices[];
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} __packed;
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/*
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@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ struct bdb_mipi_config {
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struct bdb_mipi_sequence {
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u8 version;
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u8 data[0]; /* up to 6 variable length blocks */
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u8 data[]; /* up to 6 variable length blocks */
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} __packed;
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/*
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@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ struct virtual_engine {
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/* And finally, which physical engines this virtual engine maps onto. */
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unsigned int num_siblings;
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struct intel_engine_cs *siblings[0];
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struct intel_engine_cs *siblings[];
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};
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static struct virtual_engine *to_virtual_engine(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
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int num_pages;
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int page_count;
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int unused;
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u32 *pages[0];
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u32 *pages[];
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};
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struct i915_request_coredump {
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