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authorGustavo A. R. Silva2020-02-13 11:21:30 -0600
committerHerbert Xu2020-02-22 09:25:48 +0800
commita4a70fa91b33c3a52cb5bf2992f770cc7210687b (patch)
tree67f7cb7da1ec2c24df9b09778ea9553a423b1070 /kernel
parente44362ab03ca37a8a90bb100e7706dc85e0a3ac1 (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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