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Message-ID: <20200319230525.GA14835@embeddedor.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:05:25 -0500
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] net: wireless: rayctl.h: 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/net/wireless/rayctl.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rayctl.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rayctl.h
index 668444f6bf07..e89e58a5850d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rayctl.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rayctl.h
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ struct phy_header {
};
struct ray_rx_msg {
struct mac_header mac;
- UCHAR var[0];
+ UCHAR var[];
};
struct tx_msg {
--
2.23.0
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