[PATCH][next] drm/vmwgfx: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Thu Mar 05 2020 - 06:20:08 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c
index f07aa857587c..60cfbfadd3f2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ struct vmw_bo_dirty {
unsigned int ref_count;
unsigned long bitmap_size;
size_t size;
- unsigned long bitmap[0];
+ unsigned long bitmap[];
};

/**
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
index 3ce630aa4fde..ec893cd17b50 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ struct vmw_surface_dirty {
struct svga3dsurface_cache cache;
size_t size;
u32 num_subres;
- SVGA3dBox boxes[0];
+ SVGA3dBox boxes[];
};

static void vmw_user_surface_free(struct vmw_resource *res);
--
2.25.0