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HID: intel-ish-hid: ishtp-dev.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] KSPP#21 [3] commit 7649773 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
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drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/ishtp-dev.h

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@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ struct ishtp_device {
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const struct ishtp_hw_ops *ops;
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size_t mtu;
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uint32_t ishtp_msg_hdr;
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char hw[0] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
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char hw[] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
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};
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static inline unsigned long ishtp_secs_to_jiffies(unsigned long sec)

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