From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:09:39 -0600
Subject: net: hns: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Patch-mainline: v5.7-rc1
Git-commit: c5d6cf903fe8704b65321b2e0c30afebf239247c
References: jsc#SLE-14777
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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_ppe.h | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_ppe.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_ppe.h
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ struct ppe_common_cb {
u8 comm_index; /*ppe_common index*/
u32 ppe_num;
- struct hns_ppe_cb ppe_cb[0];
+ struct hns_ppe_cb ppe_cb[];
};
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.h
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ struct rcb_common_cb {
u32 ring_num;
u32 desc_num; /* desc num per queue*/
- struct ring_pair_cb ring_pair_cb[0];
+ struct ring_pair_cb ring_pair_cb[];
};
int hns_rcb_buf_size2type(u32 buf_size);