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| author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-02-28 18:14:11 -0600 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-02-29 21:52:20 -0800 |
| commit | 97a888c2ff6bbb92bdb0cb6cfff458cc412da788 (patch) | |
| tree | b9377299f0d604db51b26cd79cdb6e48bb9879fe /include | |
| parent | 2e7aaaa19cf226944c19fbefbbbbd76f9720b310 (diff) | |
net: nexthop: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
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>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/nexthop.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/nexthop.h b/include/net/nexthop.h index 331ebbc94fe7..c440ccc861fc 100644 --- a/include/net/nexthop.h +++ b/include/net/nexthop.h @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ struct nh_group { u16 num_nh; bool mpath; bool has_v4; - struct nh_grp_entry nh_entries[0]; + struct nh_grp_entry nh_entries[]; }; struct nexthop { |