From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] prism54: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:20:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200225012008.GA4309@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 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/intersil/prism54/isl_oid.h | 8 ++++----
drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/islpci_mgt.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/isl_oid.h b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/isl_oid.h
index 5441c1f9f2fc..1afc2ccf94ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/isl_oid.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/isl_oid.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ struct obj_mlmeex {
u16 state;
u16 code;
u16 size;
- u8 data[0];
+ u8 data[];
} __packed;
struct obj_buffer {
@@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ struct obj_bss {
struct obj_bsslist {
u32 nr;
- struct obj_bss bsslist[0];
+ struct obj_bss bsslist[];
} __packed;
struct obj_frequencies {
u16 nr;
- u16 mhz[0];
+ u16 mhz[];
} __packed;
struct obj_attachment {
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct obj_attachment {
char reserved;
short id;
short size;
- char data[0];
+ char data[];
} __packed;
/*
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/islpci_mgt.h b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/islpci_mgt.h
index d6bbbac46b4a..1f87d0aea60c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/islpci_mgt.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/prism54/islpci_mgt.h
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ struct islpci_mgmtframe {
pimfor_header_t *header; /* payload header, points into buf */
void *data; /* payload ex header, points into buf */
struct work_struct ws; /* argument for schedule_work() */
- char buf[0]; /* fragment buffer */
+ char buf[]; /* fragment buffer */
};
int
--
2.25.0
next reply other threads:[~2020-02-25 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 1:20 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2020-02-25 18:32 ` [PATCH][next] prism54: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-23 17:10 ` drivers/net/wireless spring cleaning Kalle Valo
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