scsi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:14:06 +0000 (10:14 -0600)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Thu, 12 Mar 2020 03:07:56 +0000 (23:07 -0400)
commit5febf6d6ae4d488a5dc388c46d96c17f9556238f
tree220cb44bf3d7792bc6460d43b06e9a90506d1869
parent5905d4648e7ec2cc9316b17290f21e8bd8a78c32
scsi: 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")

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224161406.GA21454@embeddedor
Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
16 files changed:
drivers/scsi/fnic/vnic_devcmd.h
drivers/scsi/ipr.h
drivers/scsi/isci/sas.h
drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.h
drivers/scsi/mvumi.h
drivers/scsi/pmcraid.h
drivers/scsi/snic/vnic_devcmd.h
drivers/scsi/stex.c
include/scsi/iscsi_if.h
include/scsi/scsi_bsg_iscsi.h
include/scsi/scsi_device.h
include/scsi/scsi_host.h
include/scsi/scsi_ioctl.h
include/scsi/srp.h
include/uapi/scsi/scsi_bsg_fc.h