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mmc: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:31:25 +0000 (16:31 -0600)
committerUlf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:39:45 +0000 (14:39 +0100)
commit1a91a36aba9c232c73e4a5fce038147f5d29e566
tree556ba35f35e808f13f5f51cc08f47c0a2b2b5d2c
parentea21e9b2b33fd06c131415cc66ca5499ab2aef5f
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 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>
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-acpi.c
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-cadence.c
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pci.h
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pltfm.h
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h
drivers/mmc/host/vub300.c
include/linux/mmc/host.h
include/linux/mmc/sdio_func.h
include/uapi/linux/mmc/ioctl.h