Subject: [PATCH][next] atmel: at76c50x-usb.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:51:33 -0500

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/wireless/atmel/at76c50x-usb.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/atmel/at76c50x-usb.h b/drivers/net/wireless/atmel/at76c50x-usb.h
index f56863403b05..746e64dfd8aa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/atmel/at76c50x-usb.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/atmel/at76c50x-usb.h
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ struct at76_command {
 	u8 cmd;
 	u8 reserved;
 	__le16 size;
-	u8 data[0];
+	u8 data[];
 } __packed;
 
 /* Length of Atmel-specific Rx header before 802.11 frame */
-- 
2.23.0