scsi: advansys: 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/20200213000211.GA23171@embeddedor.com
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
index a242a62caaa16eb84439c5a31c82be99ca73d95d..c2c7850ff7b4239d789a954f14cad0b63db523a4 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ typedef struct asc_sg_head {
        ushort queue_cnt;
        ushort entry_to_copy;
        ushort res;
-       ASC_SG_LIST sg_list[0];
+       ASC_SG_LIST sg_list[];
 } ASC_SG_HEAD;
 
 typedef struct asc_scsi_q {