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| author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> | 2020-05-07 14:02:10 -0500 |
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| committer | Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> | 2020-05-12 11:55:48 +0300 |
| commit | 8d7d7a93d5265468a0019f11d0bcd2e005ce9ebd (patch) | |
| tree | a67b02cf24e7b677b53f9d5cb69b7874620e19f7 /drivers/net/wireless/intersil | |
| parent | 174812346c30321158046d879912c85d638cd1b7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8d7d7a93d5265468a0019f11d0bcd2e005ce9ebd.tar.bz2 | |
prism54: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
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 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507190210.GA15375@embeddedor
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/intersil')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/isl_oid.h | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/islpci_mgt.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/isl_oid.h b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/isl_oid.h index 5441c1f9f2fc..1afc2ccf94ca 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/isl_oid.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/isl_oid.h @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ struct obj_mlmeex { u16 state; u16 code; u16 size; - u8 data[0]; + u8 data[]; } __packed; struct obj_buffer { @@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ struct obj_bss { struct obj_bsslist { u32 nr; - struct obj_bss bsslist[0]; + struct obj_bss bsslist[]; } __packed; struct obj_frequencies { u16 nr; - u16 mhz[0]; + u16 mhz[]; } __packed; struct obj_attachment { @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct obj_attachment { char reserved; short id; short size; - char data[0]; + char data[]; } __packed; /* diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/islpci_mgt.h b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/islpci_mgt.h index d6bbbac46b4a..1f87d0aea60c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/islpci_mgt.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/islpci_mgt.h @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ struct islpci_mgmtframe { pimfor_header_t *header; /* payload header, points into buf */ void *data; /* payload ex header, points into buf */ struct work_struct ws; /* argument for schedule_work() */ - char buf[0]; /* fragment buffer */ + char buf[]; /* fragment buffer */ }; int |