intel-ish-hid: ishtp: ishtp-dev.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")

---
 drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/ishtp-dev.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

index 39e0e6c73adf..1cc6364aa957 100644
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ struct ishtp_device {
 	const struct ishtp_hw_ops *ops;
 	size_t	mtu;
 	uint32_t	ishtp_msg_hdr;
-	char hw[0] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
+	char hw[] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
 };
 
 static inline unsigned long ishtp_secs_to_jiffies(unsigned long sec)

2.23.0

Applied, thanks.

Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs