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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2020-04-20 13:14:01 -0500
committerGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>2020-04-27 11:51:08 +0200
commit366b8149fbff1965f9e25bb27dd4698d654be270 (patch)
tree11514e478a076f1ca4281ae587396697e460d48b /arch
parente09a7440407900757d03aa0cd897e4fc8e7d5fac (diff)
downloadlinux-366b8149fbff1965f9e25bb27dd4698d654be270.tar.gz
m68k: amiga: config: 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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200420181401.GA32172@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/m68k/amiga/config.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/m68k/amiga/config.c b/arch/m68k/amiga/config.c
index 777196e9c9bc..4eb911d64e8d 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/amiga/config.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/amiga/config.c
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ struct savekmsg {
 	unsigned long magic2;		/* SAVEKMSG_MAGIC2 */
 	unsigned long magicptr;		/* address of magic1 */
 	unsigned long size;
-	char data[0];
+	char data[];
 };
 
 static struct savekmsg *savekmsg;