USB: serial: garmin_gps: Use flexible-array member
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PATCH 1/1 USB: serial: garmin_gps: Use flexible-array member
Old code in the kernel uses 1-byte and 0-byte arrays to indicate the presence of a "variable length array":
struct something {
int length;
u8 data[1];
};struct something *instance;
instance = kmalloc(sizeof(*instance) + size, GFP_KERNEL); instance->length = size;memcpy(instance->data, source, size);
There is also 0-byte arrays. Both cases pose confusion for things like sizeof(), CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, etc.[1] Instead, the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as the one above is a flexible array member[2] which need to be the last member of a structure and empty-sized:
struct something {
int stuff;
u8 data[];
};Also, 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 unadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
[1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
--- drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c +1 -1
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ struct garmin_packet {int seq;/* the real size of the data array, always > 0 */ int size; -__u8 data[1 ]; +__u8 data[]; };/* structure used to keep the current state of the driver */
Signature · 1 line
2.23.0
Quoted 29 lines · Gustavo A. R. Silva
Old code in the kernel uses 1-byte and 0-byte arrays to indicate the presence of a "variable length array":
struct something { int length; u8 data[1]; };struct something *instance;
instance =
kmalloc(sizeof(*instance) + size, GFP_KERNEL);instance->length= size;memcpy(instance->data, source, size);There is also 0-byte arrays. Both cases pose confusion for things like
sizeof(),CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, etc.[1] Instead, the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as the one above is a flexible array member[2] which need to be the last member of a structure and empty-sized:struct something { int stuff; u8 data[]; };Also, 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 unadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
Quoted 5 lines
[1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[3] commit76497732932f("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")Signed-off-by Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Applied, thanks.
Johan