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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva | 2020-02-13 11:21:30 -0600 |
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committer | Herbert Xu | 2020-02-22 09:25:48 +0800 |
commit | a4a70fa91b33c3a52cb5bf2992f770cc7210687b (patch) | |
tree | 67f7cb7da1ec2c24df9b09778ea9553a423b1070 /drivers/firmware/xilinx/zynqmp.c | |
parent | e44362ab03ca37a8a90bb100e7706dc85e0a3ac1 (diff) |
crypto: s5p-sss - 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")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Acked-by: Kamil Konieczny <k.konieczny@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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