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mfd: pm8xxx: 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")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>

authored by

Gustavo A. R. Silva and committed by
Lee Jones
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drivers/mfd/qcom-pm8xxx.c
··· 76 76 unsigned int num_masters; 77 77 const struct pm_irq_data *pm_irq_data; 78 78 /* MUST BE AT THE END OF THIS STRUCT */ 79 - u8 config[0]; 79 + u8 config[]; 80 80 }; 81 81 82 82 static int pm8xxx_read_block_irq(struct pm_irq_chip *chip, unsigned int bp,