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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-03-20 17:12:42 -0500 |
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committer | Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> | 2020-03-28 07:52:09 +0100 |
commit | 1e6709b352e7432289d6384213d5222f8d8f8fdf (patch) | |
tree | 1bb9e81019cbd2bd3384d418c3b0d3dba839e3bb /drivers/pcmcia/cs_internal.h | |
parent | 6d3fbe919b839bae9d8ed22b4ae5a17b05cb209e (diff) | |
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pcmcia: cs_internal.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: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/pcmcia/cs_internal.h')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/pcmcia/cs_internal.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cs_internal.h b/drivers/pcmcia/cs_internal.h index 33c9b6ea7364..fb9b17fa0fb5 100644 --- a/drivers/pcmcia/cs_internal.h +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cs_internal.h @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ struct cis_cache_entry { unsigned int addr; unsigned int len; unsigned int attr; - unsigned char cache[0]; + unsigned char cache[]; }; struct pccard_resource_ops { |