Commit 645aa87f authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva's avatar Gustavo A. R. Silva Committed by Kalle Valo

orinoco: 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 76497732 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200225011415.GA31868@embeddedor
parent bc1d50a1
......@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct orinoco_fw_header {
__le32 pdr_offset; /* Offset to PDR data from eof header */
__le32 pri_offset; /* Offset to primary plug data */
__le32 compat_offset; /* Offset to compatibility data*/
char signature[0]; /* FW signature length headersize-20 */
char signature[]; /* FW signature length headersize-20 */
} __packed;
/* Check the range of various header entries. Return a pointer to a
......
......@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ struct agere_ext_scan_info {
__le64 timestamp;
__le16 beacon_interval;
__le16 capabilities;
u8 data[0];
u8 data[];
} __packed;
#define HERMES_LINKSTATUS_NOT_CONNECTED (0x0000)
......
......@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
struct dblock {
__le32 addr; /* adapter address where to write the block */
__le16 len; /* length of the data only, in bytes */
char data[0]; /* data to be written */
char data[]; /* data to be written */
} __packed;
/*
......@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ struct pdr {
__le32 id; /* record ID */
__le32 addr; /* adapter address where to write the data */
__le32 len; /* expected length of the data, in bytes */
char next[0]; /* next PDR starts here */
char next[]; /* next PDR starts here */
} __packed;
/*
......@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ struct pdr {
struct pdi {
__le16 len; /* length of ID and data, in words */
__le16 id; /* record ID */
char data[0]; /* plug data */
char data[]; /* plug data */
} __packed;
/*** FW data block access functions ***/
......
......@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ struct ezusb_packet {
__le16 crc; /* CRC up to here */
__le16 hermes_len;
__le16 hermes_rid;
u8 data[0];
u8 data[];
} __packed;
/* Table of devices that work or may work with this driver */
......
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