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Message-ID: <20200213000211.GA23171@embeddedor.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:02:11 -0600
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: advansys: 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@...eddedor.com>
---
drivers/scsi/advansys.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
index a242a62caaa1..c2c7850ff7b4 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ typedef struct asc_sg_head {
ushort queue_cnt;
ushort entry_to_copy;
ushort res;
- ASC_SG_LIST sg_list[0];
+ ASC_SG_LIST sg_list[];
} ASC_SG_HEAD;
typedef struct asc_scsi_q {
--
2.23.0
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