enclosure.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")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>

diff --git a/include/linux/enclosure.h b/include/linux/enclosure.h
index 564e96f625ff37198d2779720426f509536ee320..1c630e2c2756c5e5c6ce6c391c010333621f475e 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/enclosure.h
+++ b/include/linux/enclosure.h
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ struct enclosure_device {
        struct device edev;
        struct enclosure_component_callbacks *cb;
        int components;
-       struct enclosure_component component[0];
+       struct enclosure_component component[];
 };
 
 static inline struct enclosure_device *