On 2/21/20 5:00 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
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://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=0e91e8f4-53f6acd2-0e9063bb-0cc47a31384a-8... [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com
Patch queued for v5.7, thanks.
Best regards, -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics
drivers/video/fbdev/mmp/hw/mmp_ctrl.h | 2 +- drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c | 2 +- include/video/mmp_disp.h | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/mmp/hw/mmp_ctrl.h b/drivers/video/fbdev/mmp/hw/mmp_ctrl.h index 335d4983dc52..167585a889d3 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/mmp/hw/mmp_ctrl.h +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/mmp/hw/mmp_ctrl.h @@ -1406,7 +1406,7 @@ struct mmphw_ctrl {
/*pathes*/ int path_num;
- struct mmphw_path_plat path_plats[0];
- struct mmphw_path_plat path_plats[];
};
static inline int overlay_is_vid(struct mmp_overlay *overlay) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c index 142535267fec..fb2640fe575a 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ struct ssd1307fb_par {
struct ssd1307fb_array { u8 type;
- u8 data[0];
- u8 data[];
};
static const struct fb_fix_screeninfo ssd1307fb_fix = { diff --git a/include/video/mmp_disp.h b/include/video/mmp_disp.h index 1f9bc133e230..77252cb46361 100644 --- a/include/video/mmp_disp.h +++ b/include/video/mmp_disp.h @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ struct mmp_path {
/* layers */ int overlay_num;
- struct mmp_overlay overlays[0];
- struct mmp_overlay overlays[];
};
extern struct mmp_path *mmp_get_path(const char *name);