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 <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>
 
        bool                            use_runtime_pm;
        bool                            is_intel;
        bool                            reset_signal_volt_on_suspend;
-       unsigned long                   private[0] ____cacheline_aligned;
+       unsigned long                   private[] ____cacheline_aligned;
 };
 
 enum {
 
        void __iomem *hrs_addr;
        bool enhanced_strobe;
        unsigned int nr_phy_params;
-       struct sdhci_cdns_phy_param phy_params[0];
+       struct sdhci_cdns_phy_param phy_params[];
 };
 
 struct sdhci_cdns_phy_cfg {
 
        bool                    cd_override_level;
 
        void (*hw_reset)(struct sdhci_host *host);
-       unsigned long           private[0] ____cacheline_aligned;
+       unsigned long           private[] ____cacheline_aligned;
 };
 
 struct sdhci_pci_chip {
 
        unsigned int clock;
        u16 xfer_mode_shadow;
 
-       unsigned long private[0] ____cacheline_aligned;
+       unsigned long private[] ____cacheline_aligned;
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_32BIT_BYTE_SWAPPER
 
 
        u64                     data_timeout;
 
-       unsigned long private[0] ____cacheline_aligned;
+       unsigned long private[] ____cacheline_aligned;
 };
 
 struct sdhci_ops {
 
        u8 port_number;
        u8 command_type;
        u8 command_index;
-       u8 command_response[0];
+       u8 command_response[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct sd_status_header {
 
        /* Host Software Queue support */
        bool                    hsq_enabled;
 
-       unsigned long           private[0] ____cacheline_aligned;
+       unsigned long           private[] ____cacheline_aligned;
 };
 
 struct device_node;
 
        struct sdio_func_tuple *next;
        unsigned char code;
        unsigned char size;
-       unsigned char data[0];
+       unsigned char data[];
 };
 
 /*
 
  */
 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)