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scsi: message: fusion: 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 7649773293
("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200319222533.GA20577@embeddedor.com
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ struct fw_event_work {
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MPT_ADAPTER *ioc;
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u32 event;
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u8 retries;
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char event_data[0] __aligned(4);
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char event_data[] __aligned(4);
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};
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struct mptsas_discovery_event {
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