linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 456/542] char: hpet: Use flexible-array member

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Date:   Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:47:28 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 456/542] char: hpet: Use flexible-array member

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>

[ Upstream commit 987f028b8637cfa7658aa456ae73f8f21a7a7f6f ]

Old code in the kernel uses 1-byte and 0-byte arrays to indicate the
presence of a "variable length array":

struct something {
    int length;
    u8 data[1];
};

struct something *instance;

instance = kmalloc(sizeof(*instance) + size, GFP_KERNEL);
instance->length = size;
memcpy(instance->data, source, size);

There is also 0-byte arrays. Both cases pose confusion for things like
sizeof(), CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, etc.[1] Instead, the preferred mechanism
to declare variable-length types such as the one above is a flexible array
member[2] which need to be the last member of a structure and empty-sized:

struct something {
        int stuff;
        u8 data[];
};

Also, 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
unadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

[1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120235326.GA29231@embeddedor.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/char/hpet.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c
index 9ac6671bb5141..aed2c45f7968c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hpet.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ struct hpets {
 	unsigned long hp_delta;
 	unsigned int hp_ntimer;
 	unsigned int hp_which;
-	struct hpet_dev hp_dev[1];
+	struct hpet_dev hp_dev[];
 };
 
 static struct hpets *hpets;
-- 
2.20.1