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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 94f2b9256c0c..13c4be7f00f0 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ struct aio_ring { unsigned header_length; /* size of aio_ring */ - struct io_event io_events[0]; + struct io_event io_events[]; }; /* 128 bytes + ring size */ /* -- 2.25.0