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| author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-04-02 06:03:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-04-02 18:35:25 +0200 |
| commit | fa803cf8f39feba691732a78e47797c5dc388ba2 (patch) | |
| tree | f29cc41d16eefa6b9c9a730c2e27ad2251cf3b8b /fs/ocfs2 | |
| parent | ocfs2: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member (diff) | |
| download | linux-fa803cf8f39feba691732a78e47797c5dc388ba2.tar.xz linux-fa803cf8f39feba691732a78e47797c5dc388ba2.zip | |
ocfs2: cluster: 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!NzMr-YRl2zy-K3lwLVVatz7x0uD2z7-ykQag4GrGigxmfWU8TWzDy6xrkTiW3hYl00czlw$
[2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!NzMr-YRl2zy-K3lwLVVatz7x0uD2z7-ykQag4GrGigxmfWU8TWzDy6xrkTiW3hYHG1nAnw$
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Gang He <ghe@suse.com>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200309201907.GA8005@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ocfs2')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.h b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.h index de87cbffd175..736338f45c59 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.h +++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.h @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ struct o2net_msg __be32 status; __be32 key; __be32 msg_num; - __u8 buf[0]; + __u8 buf[]; }; typedef int (o2net_msg_handler_func)(struct o2net_msg *msg, u32 len, void *data, |