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| author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-03-19 17:43:26 -0500 |
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| committer | Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com> | 2020-03-23 20:01:15 +0200 |
| commit | 5bb783cc92f0da8c36c8cc288d586a4ceb6c742a (patch) | |
| tree | 6830600ca54c01c16b65c6f804f47bdbc4071c6a /drivers/mtd | |
| parent | e0fe5339d4886c48cdd68a2c49d602c4c1864c38 (diff) | |
mtd: spi-nor: controllers: aspeed-smc: 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: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/aspeed-smc.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/aspeed-smc.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/aspeed-smc.c index 395127349aa8..e26a1897db0e 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/aspeed-smc.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/aspeed-smc.c @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ struct aspeed_smc_controller { void __iomem *ahb_base; /* per-chip windows resource */ u32 ahb_window_size; /* full mapping window size */ - struct aspeed_smc_chip *chips[0]; /* pointers to attached chips */ + struct aspeed_smc_chip *chips[]; /* pointers to attached chips */ }; /* |