From 1e361632da12ac00cb86c25a857ba251fdf2de95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:07:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] libnvdimm/label: 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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200319230737.GA16452@embeddedor.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams --- drivers/nvdimm/label.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/label.h b/drivers/nvdimm/label.h index 4c7b775c2811..956b6d1bd8cc 100644 --- a/drivers/nvdimm/label.h +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/label.h @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ struct nd_namespace_index { __le16 major; __le16 minor; __le64 checksum; - u8 free[0]; + u8 free[]; }; /**