From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:24:53 -0500
Subject: ethtool.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Patch-mainline: v5.7-rc2
Git-commit: 5299a11a9378e8c68e3b8e2040f7aa7e401d50b7
References: bsc#1176447
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: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
include/linux/ethtool.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/ethtool.h
+++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct compat_ethtool_rxnfc {
compat_u64 data;
struct compat_ethtool_rx_flow_spec fs;
u32 rule_cnt;
- u32 rule_locs[0];
+ u32 rule_locs[];
};
#endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ struct ethtool_ops {
struct ethtool_rx_flow_rule {
struct flow_rule *rule;
- unsigned long priv[0];
+ unsigned long priv[];
};
struct ethtool_rx_flow_spec_input {