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]
sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.
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 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507185538.GA14674@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
The Free Software Foundation address is superfluous and causes
checkpatch to issue a warning when present. Remove all paragraphs
with FSF's address to prevent that.
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
There are still some references to 3945 and 4965 HW, which were never
supported in iwlwifi. These references were inherited from a previous
project and are irrelevant here. Additionally, remove some irrelevant
references to 5100 HW. Remove all these.
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Those constants have been unused for quite some time now.
Signed-off-by: Seraphime Kirkovski <kirkseraph@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
ilw@linux.intel.com is not available anymore.
linuxwifi@intel.com should be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
