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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:20:09 -0600
Subject: thunderbolt: icm: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Git-commit: 3084ea9ea88906576d0bfc0d66cb1735045266c8
Patch-mainline: v5.7-rc1
References: jsc#SLE-14130

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 76497732932f ("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>
Acked-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
---
 drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c b/drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c
index 13e88109742e..fbbe32ca1e69 100644
--- a/drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c
+++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ struct icm_notification {
 struct ep_name_entry {
 	u8 len;
 	u8 type;
-	u8 data[0];
+	u8 data[];
 };
 
 #define EP_NAME_INTEL_VSS	0x10