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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2020-03-23 17:24:53 -0500
committerGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2020-04-18 15:44:54 -0500
commit5299a11a9378e8c68e3b8e2040f7aa7e401d50b7 (patch)
tree052ad5efccfd5cbc824bee1ab66f2dac14dd0286 /include
parentbeb69f15a095245c5cc62389eea93002b41d2eb9 (diff)
ethtool.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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ethtool.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ethtool.h b/include/linux/ethtool.h
index c1d379bf6ee1..a23b26eab479 100644
--- a/include/linux/ethtool.h
+++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct compat_ethtool_rxnfc {
compat_u64 data;
struct compat_ethtool_rx_flow_spec fs;
u32 rule_cnt;
- u32 rule_locs[0];
+ u32 rule_locs[];
};
#endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ int ethtool_check_ops(const struct ethtool_ops *ops);
struct ethtool_rx_flow_rule {
struct flow_rule *rule;
- unsigned long priv[0];
+ unsigned long priv[];
};
struct ethtool_rx_flow_spec_input {