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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2020-02-24 10:14:06 -0600
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2020-03-11 23:07:56 -0400
commit5febf6d6ae4d488a5dc388c46d96c17f9556238f (patch)
tree220cb44bf3d7792bc6460d43b06e9a90506d1869 /drivers/scsi/fnic
parent5905d4648e7ec2cc9316b17290f21e8bd8a78c32 (diff)
downloadlinux-5febf6d6ae4d488a5dc388c46d96c17f9556238f.tar.gz
scsi: 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")

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224161406.GA21454@embeddedor
Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/fnic')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/fnic/vnic_devcmd.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/fnic/vnic_devcmd.h b/drivers/scsi/fnic/vnic_devcmd.h
index c5dde556dc7c..c20d30e36dfc 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/fnic/vnic_devcmd.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/fnic/vnic_devcmd.h
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ struct vnic_devcmd_notify {
 struct vnic_devcmd_provinfo {
 	u8 oui[3];
 	u8 type;
-	u8 data[0];
+	u8 data[];
 };
 
 /*