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thunderbolt: eeprom: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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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")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2020-02-11 17:19:11 -06:00 committed by Mika Westerberg
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commit c2a9fca17e
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@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ struct tb_drom_entry_header {
struct tb_drom_entry_generic {
struct tb_drom_entry_header header;
u8 data[0];
u8 data[];
} __packed;
struct tb_drom_entry_port {