USB: serial: ti_usb_3410_5052: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
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PATCH 1/1 USB: serial: ti_usb_3410_5052: 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 inadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
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")
--- drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c +2 -2
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ struct ti_write_data_bytes {u8 bDataCounter;__be16 wBaseAddrHi;__be16 wBaseAddrLo; -u8 bData[0 ]; +u8 bData[]; } __packed;struct ti_read_data_request {
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ struct ti_read_data_bytes {__u8 bCmdCode;__u8 bModuleId;__u8 bErrorCode; -__u8 bData[0 ]; +__u8 bData[]; } __packed;/* Interrupt struct */
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Johan Hovold
maintainerQuoted 10 lines · Gustavo A. R. Silva
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[]; };
Quoted 6 lines
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 inadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
Same here, the scripts may need to be updated as you missed a couple of instances:
$ git grep '\[0\];' drivers/usb/serial ... drivers/usb/serial/io_usbvend.h: __u8 Data[0]; // Data starts here drivers/usb/serial/io_usbvend.h: __u8 Data[0]; // Download starts here ...
Could you replace these as well so that is done in one patch per subsystem?
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[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit76497732932f("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")Signed-off-by Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>--- drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c +1
-1@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ struct ti_write_data_bytes {u8 bDataCounter;__be16 wBaseAddrHi;__be16 wBaseAddrLo; -u8 bData[0 ]; +u8 bData[]; } __packed;struct ti_read_data_request {
drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c struct ti_read_data_bytes { · line 240
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drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c +1
-1@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ struct ti_read_data_bytes {__u8 bCmdCode;__u8 bModuleId;__u8 bErrorCode; -__u8 bData[0 ]; +__u8 bData[]; } __packed;/* Interrupt struct */
Thanks,
Johan
Quoted 21 lines · Johan Hovold
Quoted 10 lines · Gustavo A. R. Silva
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[]; };Quoted 6 lines
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 inadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
Same here, the scripts may need to be updated as you missed a couple of instances:
Quoted 9 lines
$ git grep '\[0\];' drivers/usb/serial ... drivers/usb/serial/io_usbvend.h: __u8 Data[0]; // Data starts here drivers/usb/serial/io_usbvend.h: __u8 Data[0]; // Download starts here ...Could you replace these as well so that is done in one patch per subsystem?
Sure thing. I'll do that.
Thanks for the feedback.
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Gustavo