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cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour
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The use of zero-sized array causes undefined behaviour when it is not
the last member in a structure. As it happens to be in this case.

Also, the current code makes use of a language extension to the C90
standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length
types such as this one is a flexible array member, 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. Which is beneficial
to cultivate a high-quality code.

Fixes: e48f129 ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: convert cdev->l2opt to use rcu to prevent NULL dereference")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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GustavoARSilva authored and davem330 committed Apr 1, 2019
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/l2t.h
Expand Up @@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ struct l2t_data {
struct l2t_entry *rover; /* starting point for next allocation */
atomic_t nfree; /* number of free entries */
rwlock_t lock;
struct l2t_entry l2tab[0];
struct rcu_head rcu_head; /* to handle rcu cleanup */
struct l2t_entry l2tab[];
};

typedef void (*arp_failure_handler_func)(struct t3cdev * dev,
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