From patchwork Thu May 7 18:59:14 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" X-Patchwork-Id: 11534727 X-Patchwork-Delegate: kvalo@adurom.com Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A0914B4 for ; Thu, 7 May 2020 18:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8914221835 for ; Thu, 7 May 2020 18:54:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1588877692; bh=QtFVrGNgbhGsTGWwo1/9FJde4UjuqjORF0sq8noalvg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:List-ID:From; b=P0tftB3W2TAygvoIo2FcdDGyPKp/w1RqLl6cSW42156OM5waXlDKAamo270rxqii2 kw1EDh8J5Kpp159Ia6ndJxNPLFqXJQCncpvMDk9gaxfaOGlRzU2ZGpcGOaHU5EpsAi e8Y1TFr099TMCBpVCEKLk5mdkWiqAI7GmAJIsOVk= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728285AbgEGSys (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2020 14:54:48 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:56908 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726518AbgEGSys (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2020 14:54:48 -0400 Received: from embeddedor (unknown [189.207.59.248]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 41AB820575; Thu, 7 May 2020 18:54:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1588877687; bh=QtFVrGNgbhGsTGWwo1/9FJde4UjuqjORF0sq8noalvg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:From; b=JXc8lvAspZIJrRDLBtWfmNr69HFQgyhX9KEX2W3+JTL3DDd41hxNZt1ne1EWEWlJ/ 2Ftl0FgU7lXkwt5y1gdrfsv99Slkr2+yx1I7QQgkQKTIxtHKs7FrZm9jp7zEL4IXvH UJe4IoQhl3v64Tloheh8PuX9lbVnX9fnEM46QgZE= Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 13:59:14 -0500 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" To: Lennert Buytenhek Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] mwl8k: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array Message-ID: <20200507185914.GA15124@embeddedor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org 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 --- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwl8k.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwl8k.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwl8k.c index 47fb4b3ea004..97f23f93f6e7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwl8k.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwl8k.c @@ -2668,7 +2668,7 @@ struct mwl8k_cmd_mac_multicast_adr { struct mwl8k_cmd_pkt header; __le16 action; __le16 numaddr; - __u8 addr[0][ETH_ALEN]; + __u8 addr[][ETH_ALEN]; }; #define MWL8K_ENABLE_RX_DIRECTED 0x0001