netdev - Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: L2CAP: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

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Message-Id: <5C6DAE24-2E3B-4E89-AFA2-9B0E27B40815@holtmann.org>
Date:   Mon, 18 May 2020 09:58:22 +0200
From:   Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        BlueZ <linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: L2CAP: Replace zero-length array with
 flexible-array

Hi Gustavo,

> 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>
> ---
> include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.

Regards

Marcel