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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-02-11 20:42:24 +0100 |
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committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2020-02-12 08:14:45 +0100 |
commit | 6c8019d08e0e84ecad78f726c737dc6a49b58b57 (patch) | |
tree | b092a98e326f96044fddae56198769e1e27f995f /sound/usb/Makefile | |
parent | ALSA: core: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member (diff) | |
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ALSA: usb-midi: 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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200211194224.GA9383@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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