The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:
Commit-ID: 04f5c362ec6d3ff0e14f1c05230b550da7f528a4
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/04f5c362ec6d3ff0e14f1c05230b550da7f528a4
Author: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 07 May 2020 14:21:41 -05:00
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Tue, 19 May 2020 20:34:14 +02:00
sched/fair: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
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 <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200507192141.GA16183@embeddedor
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 44b0c8e..01f94cf 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@ struct numa_group {
* more by CPU use than by memory faults.
*/
unsigned long *faults_cpu;
- unsigned long faults[0];
+ unsigned long faults[];
};
/*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 21416b3..2bd2a22 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ struct sched_group {
* by attaching extra space to the end of the structure,
* depending on how many CPUs the kernel has booted up with)
*/
- unsigned long cpumask[0];
+ unsigned long cpumask[];
};
static inline struct cpumask *sched_group_span(struct sched_group *sg)
|