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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-02-13 04:04:25 +0300 |
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committer | Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> | 2020-02-20 20:33:51 +0300 |
commit | 5b361328ca649534d721e4eae20c96ccbe702ce7 (patch) | |
tree | aecd94c8ba19a810b66a90a2914b5834ba2832a4 /drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw | |
parent | 52c5e9e7497b728b53a84cbd5873c4b707d10d55 (diff) | |
download | linux-5b361328ca649534d721e4eae20c96ccbe702ce7.tar.xz |
RDMA: 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")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200213010425.GA13068@embeddedor.com
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> # added a few more
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.h index 66dc1ba03389..6e43e4d730f4 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.h +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.h @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ struct ietf_mpa_v1 { u8 flags; u8 rev; __be16 priv_data_len; - u8 priv_data[0]; + u8 priv_data[]; }; #define ietf_mpa_req_resp_frame ietf_mpa_frame @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ struct ietf_mpa_v2 { u8 rev; __be16 priv_data_len; struct ietf_rtr_msg rtr_msg; - u8 priv_data[0]; + u8 priv_data[]; }; struct i40iw_cm_node; |