scsi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

2020-03-12T03:07:56Z

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") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224161406.GA21454@embeddedor Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan Reviewed-by: Satish Kharat Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

snic: driver for Cisco SCSI HBA

2015-06-19T23:57:51Z

Cisco has developed a new PCI HBA interface called sNIC, which stands for SCSI NIC. This is a new storage feature supported on specialized network adapter. The new PCI function provides a uniform host interface and abstracts backend storage. [jejb: fix up checkpatch errors] Signed-off-by: Narsimhulu Musini Signed-off-by: Sesidhar Baddela Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

linux-dev/drivers/scsi/snic/vnic_devcmd.h, branch linus/master

scsi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

snic: driver for Cisco SCSI HBA