| Message ID | 20200305105306.GA18788@embeddedor (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
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| Series | [next] drm/gma500/intel_bios.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member | expand |
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 04:53:06AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > 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> Applied to drm-misc-next, thanks for your patch. -Daniel > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h > index a1f9ce9465a5..0e6facf21e33 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h > @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ struct bdb_general_definitions { > * number = (block_size - sizeof(bdb_general_definitions))/ > * sizeof(child_device_config); > */ > - struct child_device_config devices[0]; > + struct child_device_config devices[]; > }; > > struct bdb_lvds_options { > -- > 2.25.0 >
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h index a1f9ce9465a5..0e6facf21e33 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ struct bdb_general_definitions { * number = (block_size - sizeof(bdb_general_definitions))/ * sizeof(child_device_config); */ - struct child_device_config devices[0]; + struct child_device_config devices[]; }; struct bdb_lvds_options {
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> --- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_bios.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)