Merge tag 'flex-array-conversions-5.8-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux

Pull flexible-array member conversions from Gustavo A. R. Silva:
 "Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members.

  Notice that all of these patches have been baking in linux-next for
  two development cycles now.

  There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
  having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
  Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
  cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no
  longer be used[2].

  C99 introduced “flexible array members”, which lacks a numeric size
  for the array declaration entirely:

        struct something {
                size_t count;
                struct foo items[];
        };

  This is the way the kernel expects dynamically sized trailing elements
  to be declared. It allows the compiler to generate errors when the
  flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which helps to
  prevent some kind of undefined behavior[3] bugs from being
  inadvertently introduced to the codebase.

  It also allows the compiler to correctly analyze array sizes (via
  sizeof(), CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, and CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS). For
  instance, there is no mechanism that warns us that the following
  application of the sizeof() operator to a zero-length array always
  results in zero:

        struct something {
                size_t count;
                struct foo items[0];
        };

        struct something *instance;

        instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, items, count), GFP_KERNEL);
        instance->count = count;

        size = sizeof(instance->items) * instance->count;
        memcpy(instance->items, source, size);

  At the last line of code above, size turns out to be zero, when one
  might have thought it represents the total size in bytes of the
  dynamic memory recently allocated for the trailing array items. Here
  are a couple examples of this issue[4][5].

  Instead, flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the
  sizeof() operator may not be applied[6], so any misuse of such
  operators will be immediately noticed at build time.

  The cleanest and least error-prone way to implement this is through
  the use of a flexible array member:

        struct something {
                size_t count;
                struct foo items[];
        };

        struct something *instance;

        instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, items, count), GFP_KERNEL);
        instance->count = count;

        size = sizeof(instance->items[0]) * instance->count;
        memcpy(instance->items, source, size);

  instead"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
[4] commit f2cd32a443da ("rndis_wlan: Remove logically dead code")
[5] commit ab91c2a89f86 ("tpm: eventlog: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member")
[6] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html

* tag 'flex-array-conversions-5.8-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux: (41 commits)
  w1: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  tracing/probe: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  soc: ti: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  tifm: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  dmaengine: tegra-apb: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  stm class: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  Squashfs: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  ASoC: SOF: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  ima: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  sctp: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  phy: samsung: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  RxRPC: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  rapidio: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  media: pwc: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  firmware: pcdp: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  oprofile: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  block: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  tools/testing/nvdimm: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  libata: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  kprobes: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
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