Revision 3dbae15538972c9e1578cb216964c2840361a538 authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva on 15 February 2020, 01:03:12 UTC, committed by Dmitry Torokhov on 15 February 2020, 01:19:22 UTC
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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200214172132.GA28389@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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Makefile.dtbinst
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# ==========================================================================
# Installing dtb files
#
# Installs all dtb files listed in $(dtb-y) either in the
# INSTALL_DTBS_PATH directory or the default location:
#
#   $INSTALL_PATH/dtbs/$KERNELRELEASE
# ==========================================================================

src := $(obj)

PHONY := __dtbs_install
__dtbs_install:

export dtbinst_root ?= $(obj)

include include/config/auto.conf
include scripts/Kbuild.include
include $(src)/Makefile

dtbinst-files	:= $(sort $(dtb-y) $(if $(CONFIG_OF_ALL_DTBS), $(dtb-)))
dtbinst-dirs	:= $(subdir-y) $(subdir-m)

# Helper targets for Installing DTBs into the boot directory
quiet_cmd_dtb_install =	INSTALL $<
      cmd_dtb_install =	mkdir -p $(2); cp $< $(2)

install-dir = $(patsubst $(dtbinst_root)%,$(INSTALL_DTBS_PATH)%,$(obj))

$(dtbinst-files): %.dtb: $(obj)/%.dtb
	$(call cmd,dtb_install,$(install-dir))

$(dtbinst-dirs):
	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(dtbinst)=$(obj)/$@

PHONY += $(dtbinst-files) $(dtbinst-dirs)
__dtbs_install: $(dtbinst-files) $(dtbinst-dirs)

.PHONY: $(PHONY)
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