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net: dccp: 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

authored by

Gustavo A. R. Silva and committed by
David S. Miller
8402a31d af71b090

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include/linux/dccp.h
··· 198 198 199 199 struct dccp_service_list { 200 200 __u32 dccpsl_nr; 201 - __be32 dccpsl_list[0]; 201 + __be32 dccpsl_list[]; 202 202 }; 203 203 204 204 #define DCCP_SERVICE_INVALID_VALUE htonl((__u32)-1)
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net/dccp/ccid.h
··· 95 95 96 96 struct ccid { 97 97 struct ccid_operations *ccid_ops; 98 - char ccid_priv[0]; 98 + char ccid_priv[]; 99 99 }; 100 100 101 101 static inline void *ccid_priv(const struct ccid *ccid)