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can: dev: peak_canfd.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]>
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include/linux/can/dev/peak_canfd.h

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@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ struct __packed pucan_rx_msg {
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u8 client;
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__le16 flags;
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__le32 can_id;
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u8 d[0];
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u8 d[];
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};
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/* uCAN error types */
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u8 client;
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__le16 flags;
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__le32 can_id;
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u8 d[0];
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u8 d[];
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};
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/* build the cmd opcode_channel field with respect to the correct endianness */

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