From: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 22:43:59 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: genalloc.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
X-Git-Tag: v5.7-rc2~11^2~18
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genalloc.h: 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 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/genalloc.h b/include/linux/genalloc.h
index 5b14a0f38124..0bd581003cd5 100644
--- a/include/linux/genalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/genalloc.h
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ struct gen_pool_chunk {
 	void *owner;			/* private data to retrieve at alloc time */
 	unsigned long start_addr;	/* start address of memory chunk */
 	unsigned long end_addr;		/* end address of memory chunk (inclusive) */
-	unsigned long bits[0];		/* bitmap for allocating memory chunk */
+	unsigned long bits[];		/* bitmap for allocating memory chunk */
 };
 
 /*