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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-04-07 05:10:06 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-04-07 19:43:43 +0200 |
commit | 51022f8715bbb365de8521a5b6a2fcf967ee76ca (patch) | |
tree | 34739d13e25d5c0ccac9ce3c43d6ffc1fa29a330 /lib | |
parent | lib/ts_fsm.c: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member (diff) | |
download | linux-51022f8715bbb365de8521a5b6a2fcf967ee76ca.tar.xz linux-51022f8715bbb365de8521a5b6a2fcf967ee76ca.zip |
lib/ts_kmp.c: 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")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200211205948.GA26459@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/ts_kmp.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ts_kmp.c b/lib/ts_kmp.c index 94617e014b3a..c77a3d537f24 100644 --- a/lib/ts_kmp.c +++ b/lib/ts_kmp.c @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ struct ts_kmp { u8 * pattern; unsigned int pattern_len; - unsigned int prefix_tbl[0]; + unsigned int prefix_tbl[]; }; static unsigned int kmp_find(struct ts_config *conf, struct ts_state *state) |