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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2020-03-23 17:21:19 -0500
committerGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2020-04-18 15:44:54 -0500
commit192199464d6cccb084356add54b3a48d6dde9f96 (patch)
treed97c0b67b3ca419cf6cc04041d12227dcf31233f
parenta2008395fe2ebd9cd82f220d034d36cc887f35fe (diff)
enclosure.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>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/enclosure.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/enclosure.h b/include/linux/enclosure.h
index 564e96f625ff..1c630e2c2756 100644
--- a/include/linux/enclosure.h
+++ b/include/linux/enclosure.h
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ struct enclosure_device {
struct device edev;
struct enclosure_component_callbacks *cb;
int components;
- struct enclosure_component component[0];
+ struct enclosure_component component[];
};
static inline struct enclosure_device *