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| author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-04-07 05:11:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-04-07 19:43:44 +0200 |
| commit | 7ff87182d156e90b59455aac8503da512a1c5dba (patch) | |
| tree | 475fa3d42741c223bd4188856dbcda9144148095 /kernel | |
| parent | gcov: gcc_4_7: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member (diff) | |
| download | linux-7ff87182d156e90b59455aac8503da512a1c5dba.tar.xz linux-7ff87182d156e90b59455aac8503da512a1c5dba.zip | |
gcov: gcc_3_4: 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302224501.GA14175@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c b/kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c index 801ee4b0b969..acb83558e5df 100644 --- a/kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c +++ b/kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static struct gcov_info *gcov_info_head; struct gcov_fn_info { unsigned int ident; unsigned int checksum; - unsigned int n_ctrs[0]; + unsigned int n_ctrs[]; }; /** @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct gcov_info { unsigned int n_functions; const struct gcov_fn_info *functions; unsigned int ctr_mask; - struct gcov_ctr_info counts[0]; + struct gcov_ctr_info counts[]; }; /** @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ struct gcov_iterator { unsigned int count; int num_types; - struct type_info type_info[0]; + struct type_info type_info[]; }; static struct gcov_fn_info *get_func(struct gcov_iterator *iter) |