perf tools: 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 <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200515172926.GA31976@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
index 2d88069d6428..0a0cd4f32175 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ struct annotation_line {
 	u32			 idx;
 	int			 idx_asm;
 	int			 data_nr;
-	struct annotation_data	 data[0];
+	struct annotation_data	 data[];
 };
 
 struct disasm_line {
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ void symbol__calc_percent(struct symbol *sym, struct evsel *evsel);
 struct sym_hist {
 	u64		      nr_samples;
 	u64		      period;
-	struct sym_hist_entry addr[0];
+	struct sym_hist_entry addr[];
 };
 
 struct cyc_hist {