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>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20200226222722.GA18020@embeddedor
struct nand_chip chip;
struct list_head node;
unsigned int nsels;
- struct denali_chip_sel sels[0];
+ struct denali_chip_sel sels[];
};
/**
int addr_cyc;
int selected_die;
unsigned int nsels;
- struct marvell_nand_chip_sel sels[0];
+ struct marvell_nand_chip_sel sels[];
};
static inline struct marvell_nand_chip *to_marvell_nand(struct nand_chip *chip)
u8 *data_buf;
__le64 *info_buf;
u32 nsels;
- u8 sels[0];
+ u8 sels[];
};
struct meson_nand_ecc {
u32 spare_per_sector;
int nsels;
- u8 sels[0];
+ u8 sels[];
/* nothing after this field */
};
struct hynix_read_retry {
int nregs;
const u8 *regs;
- u8 values[0];
+ u8 values[];
};
/**
u32 timing_cfg;
u32 timing_ctl;
int nsels;
- struct sunxi_nand_chip_sel sels[0];
+ struct sunxi_nand_chip_sel sels[];
};
static inline struct sunxi_nand_chip *to_sunxi_nand(struct nand_chip *nand)