The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: dlm: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ocfs2-dlm-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: dlm: 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!OVOYL_CouISa5L1Lw-20EEFQntw6cKMx-j8UdY4z78uYgzKBUFcfpn50GaurvbV5v7YiUA$ [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!OVOYL_CouISa5L1Lw-20EEFQntw6cKMx-j8UdY4z78uYgzKBUFcfpn50GaurvbXs8Eh8eg$ [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200309202016.GA8210@embeddedor Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmcommon.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmcommon.h~ocfs2-dlm-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member +++ a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmcommon.h @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ struct dlm_migratable_lockres // 48 bytes u8 lvb[DLM_LVB_LEN]; // 112 bytes - struct dlm_migratable_lock ml[0]; // 16 bytes each, begins at byte 112 + struct dlm_migratable_lock ml[]; // 16 bytes each, begins at byte 112 }; #define DLM_MIG_LOCKRES_MAX_LEN \ (sizeof(struct dlm_migratable_lockres) + \ @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ struct dlm_convert_lock u8 name[O2NM_MAX_NAME_LEN]; - s8 lvb[0]; + s8 lvb[]; }; #define DLM_CONVERT_LOCK_MAX_LEN (sizeof(struct dlm_convert_lock)+DLM_LVB_LEN) @@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ struct dlm_unlock_lock u8 name[O2NM_MAX_NAME_LEN]; - s8 lvb[0]; + s8 lvb[]; }; #define DLM_UNLOCK_LOCK_MAX_LEN (sizeof(struct dlm_unlock_lock)+DLM_LVB_LEN) @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ struct dlm_proxy_ast u8 name[O2NM_MAX_NAME_LEN]; - s8 lvb[0]; + s8 lvb[]; }; #define DLM_PROXY_AST_MAX_LEN (sizeof(struct dlm_proxy_ast)+DLM_LVB_LEN) _ 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