From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] ipv6: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:36:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200228133641.GA27169@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>
---
net/ipv6/ah6.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ah6.c b/net/ipv6/ah6.c
index 95835e8d99aa..871d6e52ec67 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ah6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ah6.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ struct tmp_ext {
struct in6_addr saddr;
#endif
struct in6_addr daddr;
- char hdrs[0];
+ char hdrs[];
};
struct ah_skb_cb {
diff --git a/net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c b/net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c
index ab7f124ff5d7..d8afe7290de8 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
struct seg6_lwt {
struct dst_cache cache;
- struct seg6_iptunnel_encap tuninfo[0];
+ struct seg6_iptunnel_encap tuninfo[];
};
static inline struct seg6_lwt *seg6_lwt_lwtunnel(struct lwtunnel_state *lwt)
--
2.25.0
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2020-02-28 13:36 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2020-02-28 20:09 ` [PATCH][next] ipv6: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member David Miller
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