serial: sc16is7xx: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
PATCH 1/1 serial: sc16is7xx: 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/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c +1 -1
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ struct sc16is7xx_port {struct task_struct *kworker_task;struct kthread_work irq_work;struct mutex efr_lock; -struct sc16is7xx_one p[0 ]; +struct sc16is7xx_one p[]; };static unsigned long sc16is7xx_lines;
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