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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-02-12 00:16:04 +0100 |
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committer | Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> | 2020-02-20 18:13:59 +0100 |
commit | 539db76293cd2e73fe798ed0f21ac852351fedd8 (patch) | |
tree | 1f908d1bbd4c9f98c7aa8bd6693c66a1a27036f7 /drivers/dma/coh901318.c | |
parent | firmware: arm_scmi/perf: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member (diff) | |
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firmware: arm_scpi: 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.
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")
Replace the zero-length member "payload" in {legacy_,}scpi_shared_mem
structures with flexible-array.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200211231604.GA17274@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
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