linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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Message-Id: <20200310183112.18567-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:31:12 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Liang Yang <liang.yang@...ogic.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Xiaolei Li <xiaolei.li@...iatek.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 22:27:22 UTC, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" wrote:
> 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>
> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.

Miquel