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ocfs2: ocfs2_fs.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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!OKPotRhYhHbCG2kibo8Q6_6CuKaa28d_74h1svxyR6rbshrK2L_BdrQpNbvJWBWb40QCkg$
[2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!OKPotRhYhHbCG2kibo8Q6_6CuKaa28d_74h1svxyR6rbshrK2L_BdrQpNbvJWBUhNn9M6g$
[3] commit 7649773 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Gang He <ghe@suse.com>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200309202155.GA8432@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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