ath10k: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

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]

sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.

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>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507041127.GA31587@embeddedor

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.h
index 6e0537dabd1d..e77b97ca5c7f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.h
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ wmi_tlv_svc_map_ext(const __le32 *in, unsigned long *out, size_t len)
 struct wmi_tlv {
 	__le16 len;
 	__le16 tag;
-	u8 value[0];
+	u8 value[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct ath10k_mgmt_tx_pkt_addr {
@@ -2037,7 +2037,7 @@ struct wmi_tlv_bcn_tx_status_ev {
 struct wmi_tlv_bcn_prb_info {
 	__le32 caps;
 	__le32 erp;
-	u8 ies[0];
+	u8 ies[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct wmi_tlv_bcn_tmpl_cmd {
@@ -2068,7 +2068,7 @@ struct wmi_tlv_diag_item {
 	__le16 len;
 	__le32 timestamp;
 	__le32 code;
-	u8 payload[0];
+	u8 payload[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct wmi_tlv_diag_data_ev {