From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Subject: [PATCH] rbd: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 14:19:32 -0500 Message-ID: <20200507191932.GA15991@embeddedor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ilya Dryomov , Sage Weil Cc: Dongsheng Yang , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: ceph-devel.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/block/rbd_types.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd_types.h b/drivers/block/rbd_types.h index ac98ab6ccd3b..a600e0eb6b6f 100644 --- a/drivers/block/rbd_types.h +++ b/drivers/block/rbd_types.h @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ struct rbd_image_header_ondisk { __le32 snap_count; __le32 reserved; __le64 snap_names_len; - struct rbd_image_snap_ondisk snaps[0]; + struct rbd_image_snap_ondisk snaps[]; } __attribute__((packed));