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[114/166] lib/ts_kmp.c: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

Message ID 20200407031006.7zJnvFh4b%akpm@linux-foundation.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [001/166] mm, memcg: bypass high reclaim iteration for cgroup hierarchy root | expand

Commit Message

Andrew Morton April 7, 2020, 3:10 a.m. UTC 
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: lib/ts_kmp.c: 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
inadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

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: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200211205948.GA26459@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 lib/ts_kmp.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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--- a/lib/ts_kmp.c~lib-ts_kmp-replace-zero-length-array-with-flexible-array-member
+++ a/lib/ts_kmp.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@  struct ts_kmp
 {
 	u8 *		pattern;
 	unsigned int	pattern_len;
-	unsigned int 	prefix_tbl[0];
+	unsigned int	prefix_tbl[];
 };
 
 static unsigned int kmp_find(struct ts_config *conf, struct ts_state *state)