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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-03-19 22:29:50 +0100 |
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committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2020-03-21 00:07:32 +0100 |
commit | 56d8623cedf929bfb1385868e423b978d0e76eea (patch) | |
tree | 447dac4c79d8eb3f12006f448da5dff298f6b1b9 /drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid | |
parent | HID: intel-ish-hid: ishtp-dev.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-arra... (diff) | |
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HID: intel-ish-hid: hbm.h: 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
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>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/hbm.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/hbm.h b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/hbm.h index bb85985b1620..7c445b203f2a 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/hbm.h +++ b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/hbm.h @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ struct ishtp_msg_hdr { struct ishtp_bus_message { uint8_t hbm_cmd; - uint8_t data[0]; + uint8_t data[]; } __packed; /** |