Hello.
On 28.02.20 14:59, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/cfg802154.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/net/cfg802154.h b/include/net/cfg802154.h
index 6f86073a5d7d..6ed07844eb24 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg802154.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg802154.h
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ struct wpan_phy {
/* the network namespace this phy lives in currently */
possible_net_t _net;
- char priv[0] __aligned(NETDEV_ALIGN);
+ char priv[] __aligned(NETDEV_ALIGN);
};
static inline struct net *wpan_phy_net(struct wpan_phy *wpan_phy)
This patch has been applied to the wpan-next tree and will be
part of the next pull request to net-next. Thanks!
regards
Stefan Schmidt
