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Revision 5c91aa1df00ec4fa283c35e92736392df3137d81 authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva on 24 March 2020, 00:22:24 UTC, committed by Gustavo A. R. Silva on 18 April 2020, 20:44:56 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>
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Tip revision: 5c91aa1df00ec4fa283c35e92736392df3137d81 authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva on 24 March 2020, 00:22:24 UTC
skbuff.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
skbuff.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Tip revision: 5c91aa1
Kbuild
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# Kbuild for top-level directory of the kernel
#####
# Generate bounds.h
bounds-file := include/generated/bounds.h
always-y := $(bounds-file)
targets := kernel/bounds.s
$(bounds-file): kernel/bounds.s FORCE
$(call filechk,offsets,__LINUX_BOUNDS_H__)
#####
# Generate timeconst.h
timeconst-file := include/generated/timeconst.h
filechk_gentimeconst = echo $(CONFIG_HZ) | bc -q $<
$(timeconst-file): kernel/time/timeconst.bc FORCE
$(call filechk,gentimeconst)
#####
# Generate asm-offsets.h
offsets-file := include/generated/asm-offsets.h
always-y += $(offsets-file)
targets += arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s
arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s: $(timeconst-file) $(bounds-file)
$(offsets-file): arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s FORCE
$(call filechk,offsets,__ASM_OFFSETS_H__)
#####
# Check for missing system calls
always-y += missing-syscalls
quiet_cmd_syscalls = CALL $<
cmd_syscalls = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(CC) $(c_flags) $(missing_syscalls_flags)
missing-syscalls: scripts/checksyscalls.sh $(offsets-file) FORCE
$(call cmd,syscalls)
#####
# Check atomic headers are up-to-date
always-y += old-atomics
quiet_cmd_atomics = CALL $<
cmd_atomics = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $<
old-atomics: scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh FORCE
$(call cmd,atomics)
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