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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-03-23 17:21:19 -0500 |
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committer | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-04-18 15:44:54 -0500 |
commit | 192199464d6cccb084356add54b3a48d6dde9f96 (patch) | |
tree | d97c0b67b3ca419cf6cc04041d12227dcf31233f | |
parent | a2008395fe2ebd9cd82f220d034d36cc887f35fe (diff) |
enclosure.h: 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>
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/enclosure.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/enclosure.h b/include/linux/enclosure.h index 564e96f625ff..1c630e2c2756 100644 --- a/include/linux/enclosure.h +++ b/include/linux/enclosure.h @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ struct enclosure_device { struct device edev; struct enclosure_component_callbacks *cb; int components; - struct enclosure_component component[0]; + struct enclosure_component component[]; }; static inline struct enclosure_device * |