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| author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> | 2020-05-07 14:22:23 -0500 |
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| committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2020-05-07 22:30:36 +0200 |
| commit | 9ad06ebb9ad6ec4bb707f2a4a352ad6c382b5cd5 (patch) | |
| tree | f5a18757567fc24fd39b398bb7b039230e6af990 /sound/core | |
| parent | df1fceacb24853d79f41a1dd717b32ab08fa5f3f (diff) | |
ALSA: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
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.
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 <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507192223.GA16335@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'sound/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.h b/sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.h index 8d2f7a4e3ab6..46e273bd4a78 100644 --- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.h +++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.h @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ struct snd_pcm_plugin { char *buf; snd_pcm_uframes_t buf_frames; struct snd_pcm_plugin_channel *buf_channels; - char extra_data[0]; + char extra_data[]; }; int snd_pcm_plugin_build(struct snd_pcm_substream *handle, |