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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
	Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>,
	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] zd1211rw/zd_usb.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 05:12:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200305111216.GA24982@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/zydas/zd1211rw/zd_usb.h | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zydas/zd1211rw/zd_usb.h b/drivers/net/wireless/zydas/zd1211rw/zd_usb.h
index a52ee323a142..8f03b09a602c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/zydas/zd1211rw/zd_usb.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zydas/zd1211rw/zd_usb.h
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ enum control_requests {
 
 struct usb_req_read_regs {
 	__le16 id;
-	__le16 addr[0];
+	__le16 addr[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct reg_data {
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ struct reg_data {
 
 struct usb_req_write_regs {
 	__le16 id;
-	struct reg_data reg_writes[0];
+	struct reg_data reg_writes[];
 } __packed;
 
 enum {
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct usb_req_rfwrite {
 	/* 2: other (default) */
 	__le16 bits;
 	/* RF2595: 24 */
-	__le16 bit_values[0];
+	__le16 bit_values[];
 	/* (ZD_CR203 & ~(RF_IF_LE | RF_CLK | RF_DATA)) | (bit ? RF_DATA : 0) */
 } __packed;
 
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ struct usb_int_header {
 
 struct usb_int_regs {
 	struct usb_int_header hdr;
-	struct reg_data regs[0];
+	struct reg_data regs[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct usb_int_retry_fail {
-- 
2.25.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-05 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-05 11:12 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2020-03-05 14:50 ` [PATCH][next] zd1211rw/zd_usb.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member Kalle Valo
2020-03-05 15:20   ` Joe Perches
2020-03-05 16:10     ` Kalle Valo
2020-03-05 18:28       ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-10 13:56         ` Kalle Valo
2020-03-10 21:52           ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-10 22:07             ` Jes Sorensen
2020-03-10 22:13               ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-10 22:15                 ` Joe Perches
2020-03-10 22:21                   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-10 22:28                     ` Joe Perches
2020-03-10 22:33                       ` Jes Sorensen
2020-03-10 22:41                         ` Joe Perches
2020-03-10 22:46                           ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-10 22:33                       ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-10 22:20                 ` Jes Sorensen
2020-03-10 22:31                   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-10 22:34                     ` Jes Sorensen
2020-03-10 22:36                       ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-23 16:46                         ` Kalle Valo
2020-03-23 17:14 ` [PATCH][next] zd1211rw: " Kalle Valo

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