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]

sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.

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 gustavoars@kernel.org --- include/sound/soc-dapm.h | 2 +- include/sound/soc.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/sound/soc-dapm.h b/include/sound/soc-dapm.h index 08495f8d86dc..cc3dcb815282 100644 --- a/include/sound/soc-dapm.h +++ b/include/sound/soc-dapm.h @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ struct snd_soc_dapm_context { /* A list of widgets associated with an object, typically a snd_kcontrol */ struct snd_soc_dapm_widget_list { int num_widgets; - struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *widgets[0]; + struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *widgets[]; };

#define for_each_dapm_widgets(list, i, widget) \ diff --git a/include/sound/soc.h b/include/sound/soc.h index 13458e4fbb13..3e14442de2ec 100644 --- a/include/sound/soc.h +++ b/include/sound/soc.h @@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime { unsigned int fe_compr:1; /* for Dynamic PCM */

int num_components; - struct snd_soc_component *components[0]; /* CPU/Codec/Platform */ + struct snd_soc_component *components[]; /* CPU/Codec/Platform */ }; /* see soc_new_pcm_runtime() */ #define asoc_rtd_to_cpu(rtd, n) (rtd)->dais[n]