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> --- drivers/pinctrl/uniphier/pinctrl-uniphier-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/uniphier/pinctrl-uniphier-core.c b/drivers/pinctrl/uniphier/pinctrl-uniphier-core.c index 57babf31e320..ade348b49b31 100644 --- a/drivers/pinctrl/uniphier/pinctrl-uniphier-core.c +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/uniphier/pinctrl-uniphier-core.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ struct uniphier_pinctrl_reg_region { struct list_head node; unsigned int base; unsigned int nregs; - u32 vals[0]; + u32 vals[]; }; struct uniphier_pinctrl_priv { -- 2.25.0