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Revision e76018cb604ace486de9cf85898c14bb2b47faff authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva on 23 March 2020, 21:48:10 UTC, committed by Gustavo A. R. Silva on 18 April 2020, 20:44:54 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: e76018cb604ace486de9cf85898c14bb2b47faff authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva on 23 March 2020, 21:48:10 UTC
can: dev: peak_canfd.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
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Makefile
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# Makefile for Linux kernel SUN RPC
#


obj-$(CONFIG_SUNRPC) += sunrpc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SUNRPC_GSS) += auth_gss/
obj-$(CONFIG_SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA) += xprtrdma/

sunrpc-y := clnt.o xprt.o socklib.o xprtsock.o sched.o \
	    auth.o auth_null.o auth_unix.o \
	    svc.o svcsock.o svcauth.o svcauth_unix.o \
	    addr.o rpcb_clnt.o timer.o xdr.o \
	    sunrpc_syms.o cache.o rpc_pipe.o \
	    svc_xprt.o \
	    xprtmultipath.o
sunrpc-$(CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG) += debugfs.o
sunrpc-$(CONFIG_SUNRPC_BACKCHANNEL) += backchannel_rqst.o
sunrpc-$(CONFIG_PROC_FS) += stats.o
sunrpc-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL) += sysctl.o
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