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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2020-03-23 18:01:11 -0500
committerGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2020-04-18 15:44:55 -0500
commit7856e9f12f1f59cc6abb25f92b336528d0660ebb (patch)
tree5468e10355bb3cdabe1019be17baf6d2ca15433c
parent1d9e13e8ef05029c61d52ad9a6f48f14771d14b7 (diff)
downloadlinux-7856e9f12f1f59cc6abb25f92b336528d0660ebb.tar.gz
irq.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/irq.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/irq.h b/include/linux/irq.h
index 9315fbb87db3..fa8ad93029ad 100644
--- a/include/linux/irq.h
+++ b/include/linux/irq.h
@@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ struct irq_chip_generic {
 	unsigned long		unused;
 	struct irq_domain	*domain;
 	struct list_head	list;
-	struct irq_chip_type	chip_types[0];
+	struct irq_chip_type	chip_types[];
 };
 
 /**
@@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ struct irq_domain_chip_generic {
 	unsigned int		irq_flags_to_clear;
 	unsigned int		irq_flags_to_set;
 	enum irq_gc_flags	gc_flags;
-	struct irq_chip_generic	*gc[0];
+	struct irq_chip_generic	*gc[];
 };
 
 /* Generic chip callback functions */