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perf/x86: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

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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]

sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.

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 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200511200911.GA13149@embeddedor
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2020-05-11 15:09:11 -05:00 committed by Peter Zijlstra
parent 0813c40556
commit 8ac7571a8c
2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
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@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct bts_buffer {
local_t head;
unsigned long end;
void **data_pages;
struct bts_phys buf[0];
struct bts_phys buf[];
};
static struct pmu bts_pmu;

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arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.h
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@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ struct intel_uncore_box {
struct list_head list;
struct list_head active_list;
void __iomem *io_addr;
struct intel_uncore_extra_reg shared_regs[0];
struct intel_uncore_extra_reg shared_regs[];
};
/* CFL uncore 8th cbox MSRs */