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R. Silva" To: "David S. Miller" , Alexey Kuznetsov , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , Jakub Kicinski Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Subject: [PATCH][next] net: ip6_route: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member Message-ID: <20200229004410.GA8069@embeddedor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator4166.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - embeddedor.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 200.39.15.57 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1j7qBu-002qxf-5o X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: (embeddedor) [200.39.15.57]:1520 X-Source-Auth: gustavo@embeddedor.com X-Email-Count: 22 X-Source-Cap: Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z2F0b3I0MTY2Lmhvc3RnYXRvci5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@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] 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 --- include/net/ip6_route.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/net/ip6_route.h b/include/net/ip6_route.h index b69c16cbbf71..f7543c095b33 100644 --- a/include/net/ip6_route.h +++ b/include/net/ip6_route.h @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ struct route_info { reserved_h:3; #endif __be32 lifetime; - __u8 prefix[0]; /* 0,8 or 16 */ + __u8 prefix[]; /* 0,8 or 16 */ }; #include -- 2.25.0