mmc: 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>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226223125.GA20630@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2020-02-26 16:31:25 -06:00 committed by Ulf Hansson
parent ea21e9b2b3
commit 1a91a36aba
9 changed files with 9 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ struct mmc_ioc_cmd {
*/
struct mmc_ioc_multi_cmd {
__u64 num_of_cmds;
struct mmc_ioc_cmd cmds[0];
struct mmc_ioc_cmd cmds[];
};
#define MMC_IOC_CMD _IOWR(MMC_BLOCK_MAJOR, 0, struct mmc_ioc_cmd)