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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
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
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| hdcp | ||
| bus-fixup.c | ||
| bus.c | ||
| client.c | ||
| client.h | ||
| debugfs.c | ||
| dma-ring.c | ||
| hbm.c | ||
| hbm.h | ||
| hw-me-regs.h | ||
| hw-me.c | ||
| hw-me.h | ||
| hw-txe-regs.h | ||
| hw-txe.c | ||
| hw-txe.h | ||
| hw.h | ||
| init.c | ||
| interrupt.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| main.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mei-trace.c | ||
| mei-trace.h | ||
| mei_dev.h | ||
| pci-me.c | ||
| pci-txe.c | ||