f2fs: xattr.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 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2020-03-09 13:10:08 -05:00 committed by Jaegeuk Kim
parent a4ba5dfc5c
commit 50b1203d8c
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@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct f2fs_xattr_entry {
__u8 e_name_index;
__u8 e_name_len;
__le16 e_value_size; /* size of attribute value */
char e_name[0]; /* attribute name */
char e_name[]; /* attribute name */
};
#define XATTR_HDR(ptr) ((struct f2fs_xattr_header *)(ptr))