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 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com --- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.h index 9e0953c2b7ce..37aa556c5f92 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.h @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ struct msm_gem_submit { uint32_t handle; }; uint64_t iova; - } bos[0]; + } bos[]; };

#endif /* __MSM_GEM_H__ */