* [PATCH][next] nvdimm: label.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
@ 2020-03-19 23:07 Gustavo A. R. Silva
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From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2020-03-19 23:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Williams, Vishal Verma, Dave Jiang, Ira Weiny
Cc: linux-nvdimm, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva
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@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/nvdimm/label.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/label.h b/drivers/nvdimm/label.h
index 4c7b775c2811..956b6d1bd8cc 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/label.h
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/label.h
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ struct nd_namespace_index {
__le16 major;
__le16 minor;
__le64 checksum;
- u8 free[0];
+ u8 free[];
};
/**
--
2.23.0
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