list_lru.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://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@embeddedor.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/list_lru.h b/include/linux/list_lru.h
index d5ceb2839a2ded8ccf49524d76a5eedd666b1cd1..9dcaa3e582c90915a1af58a58ef099d88323a5a2 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/list_lru.h
+++ b/include/linux/list_lru.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct list_lru_one {
 struct list_lru_memcg {
        struct rcu_head         rcu;
        /* array of per cgroup lists, indexed by memcg_cache_id */
-       struct list_lru_one     *lru[0];
+       struct list_lru_one     *lru[];
 };
 
 struct list_lru_node {