From 0fa39d6dd0478b080a420aa764280e1a3bdb0cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 14:02:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array 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] sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues. 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/if_inet6.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/net/if_inet6.h b/include/net/if_inet6.h index 212eb27..8bf5906 100644 --- a/include/net/if_inet6.h +++ b/include/net/if_inet6.h @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct inet6_ifaddr { struct ip6_sf_socklist { unsigned int sl_max; unsigned int sl_count; - struct in6_addr sl_addr[0]; + struct in6_addr sl_addr[]; }; #define IP6_SFLSIZE(count) (sizeof(struct ip6_sf_socklist) + \ -- 2.7.4