The patch titled
Subject: kernel/gcov/fs.c: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
gcov-fs-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/gcov-fs-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/gcov-fs-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kernel/gcov/fs.c: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
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")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302224851.GA26467@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/gcov/fs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/gcov/fs.c~gcov-fs-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member
+++ a/kernel/gcov/fs.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct gcov_node {
struct dentry *dentry;
struct dentry **links;
int num_loaded;
- char name[0];
+ char name[];
};
static const char objtree[] = OBJTREE;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
lib-bch-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch
lib-ts_bm-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch
lib-ts_fsm-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch
lib-ts_kmp-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch
gcov-gcc_4_7-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch
gcov-gcc_3_4-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch
gcov-fs-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch
