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 --- drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h index f90c0d08e740..5ecb8b4a48a1 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ struct vc4_perfmon { * Note that counter values can't be reset, but you can fake a reset by * destroying the perfmon and creating a new one. */ - u64 counters[0]; + u64 counters[]; };
struct vc4_dev {
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 04:57:07AM -0600, 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://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com
Applied to drm-misc-next, thanks for your patch. -Daniel
drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h index f90c0d08e740..5ecb8b4a48a1 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.h @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ struct vc4_perfmon { * Note that counter values can't be reset, but you can fake a reset by * destroying the perfmon and creating a new one. */
- u64 counters[0];
- u64 counters[];
};
struct vc4_dev {
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