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| author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-02-28 07:33:37 -0600 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-02-28 12:08:37 -0800 |
| commit | 8402a31dd803e091fd2ec9cd22040b34a0b07085 (patch) | |
| tree | 05be3234ff3267189e4b73c36906e234352655a3 /net/dccp | |
| parent | af71b090c88c12816d43514190790de919921cea (diff) | |
net: dccp: 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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/dccp')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/dccp/ccid.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/dccp/ccid.h b/net/dccp/ccid.h index 70f88f2b4456..105f3734dadb 100644 --- a/net/dccp/ccid.h +++ b/net/dccp/ccid.h @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ void ccid_cleanup_builtins(void); struct ccid { struct ccid_operations *ccid_ops; - char ccid_priv[0]; + char ccid_priv[]; }; static inline void *ccid_priv(const struct ccid *ccid) |