treewide: uapi: 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:
(linux-5.19-rc2$ 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
  ];
};

-fstrict-flex-arrays=3 is coming and we need to land these changes
to prevent issues like these in the short future:

../fs/minix/dir.c:337:3: warning: 'strcpy' will always overflow; destination buffer has size 0,
but the source string has length 2 (including NUL byte) [-Wfortify-source]
		strcpy(de3->name, ".");
		^

Since these are all [0] to [] changes, the risk to UAPI is nearly zero. If
this breaks anything, we can use a union with a new member name.

[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
Build-tested-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/62b675ec.wKX6AOZ6cbE71vtF%25lkp@intel.com/
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> # For ndctl.h
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-04-06 19:36:51 -05:00
committed by Andrii Nakryiko
parent 179c7940eb
commit c25544735b
2 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ struct perf_event_query_bpf {
/*
* User provided buffer to store program ids
*/
__u32 ids[0];
__u32 ids[];
};
/*

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@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ struct tc_u32_sel {
short hoff;
__be32 hmask;
struct tc_u32_key keys[0];
struct tc_u32_key keys[];
};
struct tc_u32_mark {
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ struct tc_u32_mark {
struct tc_u32_pcnt {
__u64 rcnt;
__u64 rhit;
__u64 kcnts[0];
__u64 kcnts[];
};
/* Flags */