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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-03-23 19:25:06 -0500 |
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committer | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-04-18 15:44:56 -0500 |
commit | 4ea19ecf322c2f98ef87fc980b3851625b082ac2 (patch) | |
tree | 1d2d71037cf91c9a2241d34f1c4db5d96e0be13f | |
parent | 16c3380f8c2e7ed3d75a30776a89aabf5512027a (diff) | |
download | linux-4ea19ecf322c2f98ef87fc980b3851625b082ac2.tar.bz2 |
ti_wilink_st.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
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@embeddedor.com>
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h b/include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h index eb6cbdf10e50..44a7f9169ac6 100644 --- a/include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h +++ b/include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ struct bts_header { u32 magic; u32 version; u8 future[24]; - u8 actions[0]; + u8 actions[]; } __attribute__ ((packed)); /** @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ struct bts_header { struct bts_action { u16 type; u16 size; - u8 data[0]; + u8 data[]; } __attribute__ ((packed)); struct bts_action_send { @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ struct bts_action_send { struct bts_action_wait { u32 msec; u32 size; - u8 data[0]; + u8 data[]; } __attribute__ ((packed)); struct bts_action_delay { |