| Message ID | 20200305111401.GA25126@embeddedor (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Commit | 432eb89c61746c41fc5ab61de1666365155d67e4 |
| Delegated to: | Kalle Valo |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [next] cw1200/wsm.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member | expand |
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.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@embeddedor.com> Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks. 432eb89c6174 cw1200: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.h b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.h index ddea57f8c8ab..1ffa47994bb9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.h @@ -1623,7 +1623,7 @@ struct wsm_p2p_device_info { u8 local_devname[D11_MAX_SSID_LEN]; u8 reserved2[3]; u8 num_secdev_supported; - struct wsm_p2p_device_type secdevs[0]; + struct wsm_p2p_device_type secdevs[]; } __packed; /* 4.36 SetWCDMABand - WO */
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@embeddedor.com> --- drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)