hwtracing: stm: stm.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
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PATCH 1/1 hwtracing: stm: stm.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")
--- drivers/hwtracing/stm/stm.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/hwtracing/stm/stm.h +2 -2
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ void *stp_policy_node_priv(struct stp_policy_node *pn);struct stp_master {unsigned int nr_free; -unsigned long chan_map[0 ]; +unsigned long chan_map[]; };struct stm_device {
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct stm_device {const struct config_item_type *pdrv_node_type;/* master allocation */ spinlock_t mc_lock; -struct stp_master *masters[0 ]; +struct stp_master *masters[]; };#define to_stm_device (_d) \
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