hwspinlock: hwspinlock_internal.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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")

Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200319213839.GA10669@embeddedor.com
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_internal.h b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_internal.h
index 9eb6bd020dc7..29892767bb7a 100644
--- a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_internal.h
+++ b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_internal.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ struct hwspinlock_device {
 	const struct hwspinlock_ops *ops;
 	int base_id;
 	int num_locks;
-	struct hwspinlock lock[0];
+	struct hwspinlock lock[];
 };
 
 static inline int hwlock_to_id(struct hwspinlock *hwlock)