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R. Silva" To: Sathya Prakash , Chaitra P B , Suganath Prabu Subramani , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Subject: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member Message-ID: <20200213000738.GA25759@embeddedor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator4166.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - embeddedor.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 200.68.141.42 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1j222e-003RTl-Sl X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: (embeddedor) [200.68.141.42]:25661 X-Source-Auth: gustavo@embeddedor.com X-Email-Count: 17 X-Source-Cap: Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z2F0b3I0MTY2Lmhvc3RnYXRvci5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-scsi@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] 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/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c index c597d544eb39..778d5e6ce385 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ struct fw_event_work { u8 ignore; u16 event; struct kref refcount; - char event_data[0] __aligned(4); + char event_data[] __aligned(4); }; static void fw_event_work_free(struct kref *r)