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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-02-24 18:34:08 -0600 |
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committer | Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> | 2020-03-23 18:55:04 +0200 |
commit | 398978f7dfa551abff9361f40db951c3c982fa5e (patch) | |
tree | 0cec7bd55f62ed3cb9e179caae4448d6549e933a /drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.h | |
parent | a1b7714b72fd2ba5dead01b465a9e37863051eff (diff) |
wireless: ti: 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: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200225003408.GA28675@embeddedor
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.h')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.h index bfad7b5a1ac6..f2609d5b6bf7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.h @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ struct wl1271_cmd_header { __le16 id; __le16 status; /* payload */ - u8 data[0]; + u8 data[]; } __packed; #define WL1271_CMD_MAX_PARAMS 572 |