firmware: arm_scmi: 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
inadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

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")

Replace the zero-length member "msg_payload" in scmi_shared_mem
structure with flexible-array.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200211231045.GA13956@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
[ rebased the change as files are moved around ]
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2020-02-11 17:10:45 -06:00 committed by Sudeep Holla
parent 5c8a47a5a9
commit 4ddfb4af07

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@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ struct scmi_shared_mem {
#define SCMI_SHMEM_FLAG_INTR_ENABLED BIT(0)
__le32 length;
__le32 msg_header;
u8 msg_payload[0];
u8 msg_payload[];
};
void shmem_tx_prepare(struct scmi_shared_mem __iomem *shmem,