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* [PATCH] IB/core, cache: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
@ 2020-02-13  1:04 Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2020-02-13  1:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
  2020-02-20 17:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2020-02-13  1:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Doug Ledford, Jason Gunthorpe
  Cc: linux-rdma, 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/infiniband/core/cache.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
index 17bfedd24cc3..dedfbe27916f 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 struct ib_pkey_cache {
 	int             table_len;
-	u16             table[0];
+	u16             table[];
 };
 
 struct ib_update_work {
-- 
2.23.0


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2020-02-13  1:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-13 18:36   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-02-13 18:37     ` Leon Romanovsky
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