From 00d963abcb92e9e3192036f83f5c3f964b19141a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:37:00 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] tty/serial: 8250_exar: 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 inadvertenly 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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200212193700.GA29715@embeddedor Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c index 91e9b07..65898ef 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ struct exar8250 { unsigned int nr; struct exar8250_board *board; void __iomem *virt; - int line[0]; + int line[]; }; static void exar_pm(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int state, unsigned int old) -- 2.7.4