From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:56:29 -0600
Subject: bonding: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Patch-mainline: v5.7-rc1
Git-commit: 749db093040788ff474937d2452d4cf0176b5a1f
References: bsc#1176447

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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
 include/net/bonding.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/net/bonding.h
+++ b/include/net/bonding.h
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ struct slave {
 struct bond_up_slave {
 	unsigned int	count;
 	struct rcu_head rcu;
-	struct slave	*arr[0];
+	struct slave	*arr[];
 };
 
 /*