Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: usb: cdc-phonet: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:58:16 -0600

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 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c
index bcabd39d136a..9bdbd7b472a0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ struct usbpn_dev {
 
 	spinlock_t		rx_lock;
 	struct sk_buff		*rx_skb;
-	struct urb		*urbs[0];
+	struct urb		*urbs[];
 };
 
 static void tx_complete(struct urb *req);
-- 
2.25.0