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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>,
	Rahul Verma <rahulv@marvell.com>,
	"GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com David S. Miller"
	<davem@davemloft.net>, Shahed Shaikh <shshaikh@marvell.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] qlogic: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:03:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200225000355.GA16193@embeddedor> (raw)

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 detected 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/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic.h | 2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic.h     | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic.h
index 3dce769d83a1..86153660d245 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic.h
@@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ struct netxen_minidump_template_hdr {
 	u32 driver_info_word4;
 	u32 saved_state_array[NX_DUMP_STATE_ARRAY_LEN];
 	u32 capture_size_array[NX_DUMP_CAP_SIZE_ARRAY_LEN];
-	u32 rsvd[0];
+	u32 rsvd[];
 };
 
 /* Common Entry Header:  Common to All Entry Types */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic.h
index 374a4d4371f9..134611aa2c9a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic.h
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ struct qlcnic_83xx_dump_template_hdr {
 	u32	saved_state[16];
 	u32	cap_sizes[8];
 	u32	ocm_wnd_reg[16];
-	u32	rsvd[0];
+	u32	rsvd[];
 };
 
 struct qlcnic_82xx_dump_template_hdr {
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ struct qlcnic_82xx_dump_template_hdr {
 	u32	cap_sizes[8];
 	u32	rsvd[7];
 	u32	capabilities;
-	u32	rsvd1[0];
+	u32	rsvd1[];
 };
 
 #define QLC_PEX_DMA_READ_SIZE	(PAGE_SIZE * 16)
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ struct qlcnic_hostrq_rx_ctx {
 	   The following is packed:
 	   - N hostrq_rds_rings
 	   - N hostrq_sds_rings */
-	char data[0];
+	char data[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct qlcnic_cardrsp_rds_ring{
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ struct qlcnic_cardrsp_rx_ctx {
 	   The following is packed:
 	   - N cardrsp_rds_rings
 	   - N cardrs_sds_rings */
-	char data[0];
+	char data[];
 } __packed;
 
 #define SIZEOF_HOSTRQ_RX(HOSTRQ_RX, rds_rings, sds_rings)	\
-- 
2.25.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-25  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-25  0:03 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2020-02-27  0:46 ` [PATCH][next] qlogic: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member David Miller

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