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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:15:55 -0600 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com> Subject: [PATCH] perf/callchain: 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> --- kernel/events/callchain.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c index c2b41a263166..b1991043b7d8 100644 --- a/kernel/events/callchain.c +++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ struct callchain_cpus_entries { struct rcu_head rcu_head; - struct perf_callchain_entry *cpu_entries[0]; + struct perf_callchain_entry *cpu_entries[]; }; int sysctl_perf_event_max_stack __read_mostly = PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH; -- 2.25.0
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