media: pwc: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
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PATCH 1/1 media: pwc: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
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]
sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.
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/media/usb/pwc/pwc.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/media/usb/pwc/pwc.h +1 -1
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ struct pwc_raw_frame {decompressor) */ __u8 cmd[4 ];/* the four byte of the command (in case of nala, only the first 3 bytes is filled) */ -__u8 rawframe[0 ];/* frame_size = H / 4 * vbandlength */ +__u8 rawframe[];/* frame_size = H / 4 * vbandlength */ } __packed;/* intermediate buffers with raw data from the USB cam */