Subject: [PATCH][next] bna: bnad: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 06:10:51 -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/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.h
index 492a02d54f14..bfa58b40dc3f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.h
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ struct bnad_rx_unmap_q {
 	int			alloc_order;
 	u32			map_size;
 	enum bnad_rxbuf_type	type;
-	struct bnad_rx_unmap	unmap[0] ____cacheline_aligned;
+	struct bnad_rx_unmap	unmap[] ____cacheline_aligned;
 };
 
 #define BNAD_PCI_DEV_IS_CAT2(_bnad) \
-- 
2.25.0