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Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 14:22:04 -0500 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] slab: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array 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] sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues. 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 <gustavoars@...nel.org> --- mm/slab.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h index 207c83ef6e06..815e4e9a94cd 100644 --- a/mm/slab.h +++ b/mm/slab.h @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct kmem_cache { struct memcg_cache_array { struct rcu_head rcu; - struct kmem_cache *entries[0]; + struct kmem_cache *entries[]; }; /*
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