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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>2020-05-27 12:14:25 -0500
committerArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2020-06-15 14:38:56 +0200
commit2963795122f50b36ed16e3ba880c3ed2de1bda6e (patch)
tree352f119264084419d26025944f2a3848044788f0 /fs/drop_caches.c
parent4353f03317fd3eb0bd803b61bdb287b68736a728 (diff)
efi: Replace zero-length array and use struct_size() helper
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] sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues. Lastly, make use of the sizeof_field() helper instead of an open-coded version. This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle and audited _manually_. [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 <gustavoars@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527171425.GA4053@embeddedor Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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