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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2020-02-24 10:21:00 -0600
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2020-03-06 12:28:21 +1100
commit5a8a076506af03f83f83d80412a7c0b06b687ee1 (patch)
tree3748195e05adfc39d2516d7d077d782067a290a1 /drivers/crypto/nx
parentd282eeeb112a00b05595a034ac4cae8532a4c2fc (diff)
downloadlinux-5a8a076506af03f83f83d80412a7c0b06b687ee1.tar.bz2
crypto: 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> Reviewed-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/crypto/nx')
-rw-r--r--drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h
index 91c54289124a..c6233173c612 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h
+++ b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ struct max_sync_cop {
u32 fc;
u32 mode;
u32 triplets;
- struct msc_triplet trip[0];
+ struct msc_triplet trip[];
} __packed;
struct alg_props {