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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@linaro.org>,
	Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] media: venus: hfi_msgs.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:22:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200319222229.GA19280@embeddedor.com> (raw)

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/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_msgs.h | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_msgs.h b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_msgs.h
index 7694b1d25d9d..526d9f5b487b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_msgs.h
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_msgs.h
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ struct hfi_msg_session_empty_buffer_done_pkt {
 	u32 input_tag;
 	u32 packet_buffer;
 	u32 extradata_buffer;
-	u32 data[0];
+	u32 data[];
 };
 
 struct hfi_msg_session_fbd_compressed_pkt {
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ struct hfi_msg_session_fbd_compressed_pkt {
 	u32 picture_type;
 	u32 packet_buffer;
 	u32 extradata_buffer;
-	u32 data[0];
+	u32 data[];
 };
 
 struct hfi_msg_session_fbd_uncompressed_plane0_pkt {
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ struct hfi_msg_session_fbd_uncompressed_plane0_pkt {
 	u32 picture_type;
 	u32 packet_buffer;
 	u32 extradata_buffer;
-	u32 data[0];
+	u32 data[];
 };
 
 struct hfi_msg_session_fbd_uncompressed_plane1_pkt {
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ struct hfi_msg_session_fbd_uncompressed_plane1_pkt {
 	u32 filled_len;
 	u32 offset;
 	u32 packet_buffer2;
-	u32 data[0];
+	u32 data[];
 };
 
 struct hfi_msg_session_fbd_uncompressed_plane2_pkt {
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ struct hfi_msg_session_fbd_uncompressed_plane2_pkt {
 	u32 filled_len;
 	u32 offset;
 	u32 packet_buffer3;
-	u32 data[0];
+	u32 data[];
 };
 
 struct hfi_msg_session_parse_sequence_header_done_pkt {
-- 
2.23.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-19 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-19 22:22 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2020-04-01  8:38 ` [PATCH][next] media: venus: hfi_msgs.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member Stanimir Varbanov

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