From d6cdad870358128c1e753e6258e295ab8a5a2429 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:51:46 -0500 Subject: uapi: linux: dlm_device.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 --- include/uapi/linux/dlm_device.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/uapi') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/dlm_device.h b/include/uapi/linux/dlm_device.h index f880d2831160..e83954c69fff 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/dlm_device.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/dlm_device.h @@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ struct dlm_lock_params { void __user *bastaddr; struct dlm_lksb __user *lksb; char lvb[DLM_USER_LVB_LEN]; - char name[0]; + char name[]; }; struct dlm_lspace_params { __u32 flags; __u32 minor; - char name[0]; + char name[]; }; struct dlm_purge_params { -- cgit v1.2.3