From af741b0bad237bf85d388b70c62dfcb2769beef0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:13:23 -0500
Subject: pcmcia: soc_common.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>
---
drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
(limited to 'drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.h')
diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.h b/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.h
index b7f993f1bbd0..222e81c79365 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.h
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.h
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct soc_pcmcia_socket {
struct skt_dev_info {
int nskt;
- struct soc_pcmcia_socket skt[0];
+ struct soc_pcmcia_socket skt[];
};
struct pcmcia_state {
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