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Message-Id: <20200323171407.5E84CC432C2@smtp.codeaurora.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:14:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>, Ulrich Kunitz <kune@...ne-taler.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] zd1211rw: Replace zero-length array with
flexible-array member
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com> 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>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
8622a0e5a499 zd1211rw: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11421571/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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