treewide: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members

There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
no longer be used[2].

This code was transformed with the help of Coccinelle:
(next-20220214$ spatch --jobs $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) --sp-file script.cocci --include-headers --dir . > output.patch)

@@
identifier S, member, array;
type T1, T2;
@@

struct S {
  ...
  T1 member;
  T2 array[
- 0
  ];
};

UAPI and wireless changes were intentionally excluded from this patch
and will be sent out separately.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-02-14 19:11:44 -06:00
parent 26291c54e1
commit 5224f79096
66 changed files with 111 additions and 111 deletions
+2 -2
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@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ struct fdt_reserve_entry {
struct fdt_node_header {
fdt32_t tag;
char name[0];
char name[];
};
struct fdt_property {
fdt32_t tag;
fdt32_t len;
fdt32_t nameoff;
char data[0];
char data[];
};
#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY */