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[next] input: keyboard: applespi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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Commit d34fced41e172fae2df7819b1d5a398c62067599
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Series [next] input: keyboard: applespi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member | expand

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Gustavo A. R. Silva March 19, 2020, 9:43 p.m. UTC
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>
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 drivers/input/keyboard/applespi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/applespi.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/applespi.c
index d38398526965..14362ebab9a9 100644
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/applespi.c
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/applespi.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@  struct touchpad_protocol {
 	u8			number_of_fingers;
 	u8			clicked2;
 	u8			unknown3[16];
-	struct tp_finger	fingers[0];
+	struct tp_finger	fingers[];
 };
 
 /**