* [PATCH][next] net: ip6_fib: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
@ 2020-03-02 12:06 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-02 19:27 ` David Miller
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2020-03-02 12:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David S. Miller, Alexey Kuznetsov, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI, Jakub Kicinski
Cc: netdev, 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>
---
include/net/ip6_fib.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/net/ip6_fib.h b/include/net/ip6_fib.h
index fd60a8ac02ee..6ec26e4d7f11 100644
--- a/include/net/ip6_fib.h
+++ b/include/net/ip6_fib.h
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ struct fib6_info {
struct rcu_head rcu;
struct nexthop *nh;
- struct fib6_nh fib6_nh[0];
+ struct fib6_nh fib6_nh[];
};
struct rt6_info {
--
2.25.0
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* Re: [PATCH][next] net: ip6_fib: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
2020-03-02 12:06 [PATCH][next] net: ip6_fib: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member Gustavo A. R. Silva
@ 2020-03-02 19:27 ` David Miller
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2020-03-02 19:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gustavo; +Cc: kuznet, yoshfuji, kuba, netdev, linux-kernel
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 06:06:07 -0600
> 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>
Applied.
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